2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation: Molly Weigel, The Shock of the Lenders & Other Poems by Jorge Santiago Perednik (Action Books)
Delighted to learn that Molly and Jorge have won this award. More info from PEN here.
Jacket2, PennSound, and the EPC have extensive resources related to this book and to Perednik's work.
•Molly Weigel's introduction to Shock of the Lenders
•Perednik at PennSound includes links to two poem videos by Ernesto Livon-Grosman, a one hour radio show with Perednik, and Livon-Grosman's film with Jorge and me reading each other's poems; Jorge reads his translation of "Dear Mr. Fanelli" and I read Molly's translation.
•The Shock of the Lenders announcement
•excerpt of The Shock of the Lenders in S/N: NewWorldPoetics
•XUL and the The XUL Reader (Perednik's magazine) are on line here.
2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Winner
Molly Weigel, The Shock of the Lenders & Other Poems by Jorge Santiago Perednik (Action Books)
The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English published in the previous calendar year and is judged by a single translator of poetry appointed by the PEN Translation Committee.
- See more at: http://www.pen.org/literature/2013-pen-award-poetry-translation#sthash.Z2W6uP4B.dpuf
2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Winner
Molly Weigel, The Shock of the Lenders & Other Poems by Jorge Santiago Perednik (Action Books)
The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English published in the previous calendar year and is judged by a single translator of poetry appointed by the PEN Translation Committee.
- See more at: http://www.pen.org/literature/2013-pen-award-poetry-translation#sthash.Z2W6uP4B.dpuf
2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
Winner
Molly Weigel, The Shock of the Lenders & Other Poems by Jorge Santiago Perednik (Action Books)
The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English published in the previous calendar year and is judged by a single translator of poetry appointed by the PEN Translation Committee.
- See more at: http://www.pen.org/literature/2013-pen-award-poetry-translation#sthash.Z...