アンシア・ベル
Anshia Beru
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Somerville College, University of Oxford | English | English | — | 1950年代 | United Kingdom |
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) | — | — | British monarchy (New Year Honours) | 任命 |
| 2015 | Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Cross of Merit) | — | — | Federal Republic of Germany | 受賞 |
| 1987 | Schlegel-Tieck Prize | The Stone and the Flute | — | Schlegel-Tieck Prize committee | 受賞 |
| 1996 | Marsh Award for Children's Literature in Translation | A Dog's Life | — | Marsh Award committee | 受賞 |
| 2002 | Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize | Austerlitz | — | Goethe Institute | 受賞 |
| 2002 | Independent Foreign Fiction Prize | Austerlitz | — | Independent | 受賞 |
| 2009 | Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize | How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone | — | Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize committee | 受賞 |
| 2017 | Eric Carle Museum Bridge Award | — | — | Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art | 受賞（子ども向け文学への貢献） |
An English translation of Franz Kafka's unfinished novel. The work depicts bureaucracy and absurdity; Bell's translation preserves the tone of the original while making it accessible to anglophone readers.
An English translation of W. G. Sebald's major work. The novel explores memory and history; Bell's translation was praised for faithfully rendering Sebald's complex narration into English.
Translator of Cornelia Funke's children's fantasy trilogy. The translation renders the interplay between fictional and real worlds in a style appropriate for young readers.
Longtime English translator of the Franco-Belgian comic Asterix. Her skill at recreating puns and wordplay in English was highly praised.
Anthea Bell was a translator who introduced a wide range of genres—from children's literature to literary fiction and comics—to anglophone readers. She was especially acclaimed for her English renderings of Asterix's wordplay. She won numerous translation prizes and made a significant contribution to the dissemination of foreign literature.
Translation: walking the tightrope of illusion — I prefer translations that create the illusion the reader is not reading a translation but the real thing.