PEN Translation Prize
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Edition 57 (2017) Winner
Tess Lewis
テス・ルイス
Tess Lewis
Aliases:
Teresa D. Lewis
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Nationality
- American
- Languages
- English, French, German
- Residence History
- New York
Career
- Occupations
- writer, essayist, literary translator
- Active Years
- 1986-2024
- Affiliations
- The Hudson Review (advisory editor), National Book Critics Circle (board member), Festival Neue Literature (curator, 2014-2015)
- Nominations
- BTBA nomination (Angel of Oblivion), Best Translated Book Award nomination (Incest)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Notre Dame | — | — | — | — | United States |
| University of Oxford | New College | — | Rhodes Scholarship | 1986 | United Kingdom |
University of Notre Dame
Country:
United States
University of Oxford
New College
Degree:
Rhodes Scholarship
Period:
1986
Year of Graduation:
1986
Country:
United Kingdom
Rhodes Scholarship
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | PEN Translation Prize | Angel of Oblivion | — | PEN America | 受賞 |
| 2017 | Austrian Cultural Forum NY Translation Prize | Angel of Oblivion | — | Austrian Cultural Forum NY | 受賞 |
| 2015 | John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship | Translation of Ludwig Hohl’s Notizen | — | John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | 受賞 |
| 2022 | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship | In the Forest of the Metropoles | — | National Endowment for the Arts | 受賞 |
PEN Translation Prize
2017
Work:
Angel of Oblivion
Organization:
PEN America
Result:
受賞
Austrian Cultural Forum NY Translation Prize
2017
Work:
Angel of Oblivion
Organization:
Austrian Cultural Forum NY
Result:
受賞
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
2015
Work:
Translation of Ludwig Hohl’s Notizen
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Result:
受賞
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
2022
Work:
In the Forest of the Metropoles
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Angel of Oblivion
2016 novelEnglish translation of Maja Haderlap's novel about memory and trauma in Slovenian-Austrian border region.
memorytraumaidentity
Incest
2017 novelEnglish translation of Christine Angot's novel Incest.
familyincestexperimental syntax
Bibliography
- Once Again for Thucydides (2008)
- One Hundred Days (2012)
- Ludwig’s Room (2011)
- Seedtime: Notebooks 1954-79 (2013)
- Elsewhere (2014)
- Fly Away, Pigeon (2014)
- Obscurity (2015)
- Notebooks: Volume 1: 1998-1999 (2015)
- Angel of Oblivion (2016)
- Incest (2017)
- Kruso (2017)
- Stigmata of Bliss (2017)
- Panopticon (2018)
- One Another (2018)
- The Storyteller Essays (2019)
- My Mother’s Tears (2019)
- Kraft (2020)
- What You Can See from Here (2021)
- The Notes (2021)
- Distant Transit (2022)
- Epic Annette (2022)
- On the Marble Cliffs (2023)
- The Questionable Ones (2023)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- precise translation of complex syntaxessays on European literature
Legacy
Renowned literary translator from French and German to English, recipient of PEN Translation Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and others.
Trivia
- Rhodes Scholar (1986)