News - World Editions

25 Feb

The Land of Short Sentences Virtual Launch Event on March 5

March 1, 2022
By Assistant

On March 5, join the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the Scandinavia House for a Nordic Literature in Translation event with this year’s American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize winner ...

11 Feb

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Hunter Simpson Awarded 2021 Leif and Injer Sjöberg Prize

February 11, 2022
By Assistant

The American-Scandinavian Foundation chose to award Hunter Simpson the Leif and Injer Sjöberg Prize for his fantastic work on Danish author Stine Pilgaard's novel The Land of Short Sentences. The jury...

10 Feb

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David Doherty wins the 2022 Society of Authors Vondel Translation Prize for his translation of Jaap Robben’s Summer Brother

February 10, 2022
By Lydia Unsworth

We’re thrilled to announce that the winner of the prestigious Society of Authors Vondel Translation Prize is David Doherty, translator of Jaap Robben’s Summer Brother, published by World Editions in 2...

09 Feb

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New Year Selected as a Finalist for the 2022 PEN Translation Prize

February 21, 2022
By Assistant

The PEN Translation Prize is an annual award for book-length prose translations from any language into English. Awarded annually since 1963, the award confers a $3,000 prize to the translator of the w...

09 Feb

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Robben and Dieudonné Longlisted for Society of Authors prizes

February 9, 2022
By Assistant

The Society of Authors awards a prize every two or three years to outstanding translations from works in several languages, including Dutch and French. This year, two World Editions titles have been s...

04 Nov

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72nd National Book Awards Ceremony (US)

November 4, 2021
By Sabrina

The 72nd National Book Awards Ceremony will be broadcast live on Wednesday 17 November 2021 at 7:00 pm New York time. Planet of Clay, written by Samar Yazbek, translated from Arabic by Leri Price, and...

04 Nov

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2021 National Book Awards Finalists Reading (US)

November 4, 2021
By Sabrina

Every year, The National Book Foundation teams up with The New School to present readings by each of the National Book Awards Finalists. This year the reading will take place on Tuesday 9 November at ...

14 Oct

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Who’s creating a buzz in Sheffield? Jaap Robben!

October 14, 2021
By Ruth Killick

International Booker Nominated author Jaap Robben launches his new book, Biography of a Fly in Sheffield 15-31 October Follow the story across 17 poster sites across the town in a special poster ...

05 Oct

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PLANET OF CLAY Named a Finalist for the National Book Award

October 5, 2021
By Sabrina

World Editions is happy and proud to share that Planet of Clay has been named a Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature (US), as announced via the New York Times on 5 October. ...

05 Oct

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Coming soon! The Movement by Petra Hůlová, translated by Alex Zucker

October 5, 2021
By Ruth Killick

This dystopian fantasy by one of the Czech republic’s leading writers is already receiving advance praise in the US: ‘one part Animal Farm, one part The Handmaid’s Tale, one part A Clockwork Orange, ...