German-Italian translator award
The German-Italian translator award ( Italian Premio Italo-Tedesco per la Traduzione ) is a literary award that has been awarded annually since 2008 .
The prize is awarded jointly by the Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media , the Foreign Office and the Italian Ministry of Culture , in cooperation with the Centro per il Libro e la Lettura (Cepell) and the Goethe Institute . Its aim is to continuously promote cultural exchange between the two countries and, in this context, to recognize the essential importance of literary translations.
The awards are given to translators from Germany or Italy every year, and the award ceremony alternates between Italy and Germany. The award winners are selected by independent jurors from both countries. The translations into Italian are evaluated by an Italian jury, those into German by German jurors, and both juries are completed by a representative from the other team.
The main prize goes to an outstanding translation of a literary work; the translation must have been published in the two years preceding the award ceremony or it must appear in the current year. The prize is currently (as of 2020) endowed with € 10,000. It is at the discretion of the jury to also award a prize for the life's work of a translator. In addition, a young talent award can be awarded that is linked to a residency grant.
Lists of award winners
Award for the best translation
| German-Italian translator award - award for the best translation | ||||
| Year of award |
Translator | Title of the translation |
Original title and author | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Domenico Pinto | Dalla vita di un fauno | From the life of a faun by Arno Schmidt | |
| 2009 | Sigrid Vagt | The legend of Redenta Tiria | La leggenda di Redenta Tiria by Salvatore Niffoi | |
| 2010 | Bice Rinaldi | Zündel se ne va | Zündel's departure from Markus Werner | |
| 2011 | Barbara Kleiner | An angel in kindness | Angelo di bontà by Ippolito Nievo | |
| 2012 |
Marina Pugliano and Julia Rader |
Un viaggio | A journey by HG Adler | |
| 2013 | Hartmut Köhler (posthumous) | La commedia | La commedia by Dante | |
| 2014 | Roberta Gado | Caccia alla marmotta | Marble hunt by Ulrich Becher | |
| 2015 | Moshe Kahn | Horcynus Orca | Horcynus Orca by Stefano D'Arrigo | |
| 2016 | Ada Vigliani | Forse Esther | Maybe Esther from Katja Petrowskaya | |
| 2017 | Victoria Lorini | Edition Giorgio Vasari (45 vol.) | Vite by Giorgio Vasari | |
| 2018 | Donata Berra | La guerra invernale nel Tibet | The Winter War in Tibet by Friedrich Dürrenmatt | |
| 2020 | Verena von Koskull | The Catholic School | La scuola cattolica by Edoardo Albinati | |
Lifetime achievement award
| German-Italian Translator Award - Lifetime Achievement Award | ||||
| Year of award |
Translator | translated authors | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Anita Raja | amongst others Christa Wolf , Franz Kafka , Bertolt Brecht , Hans Magnus Enzensberger | ||
| 2009 | Marianne Schneider | including Leonardo da Vinci , Giacomo Leopardi , Alberto Vigevani , Gianni Celati | ||
| 2010 | (not awarded) | |||
| 2011 | Maja plow | including Natalia Ginzburg , Cesare Pavese , Fabrizia Ramondino , Giovanni Orelli | ||
| 2012 | (not awarded) | |||
| 2013 | Burkhart Kroeber | Umberto Eco , Italo Calvino , Alessandro Manzoni, among others | ||
| 2014 | (not awarded) | |||
| 2015 | Ragni Maria Gschwend | including Claudio Magris , Fulvio Tomizza , Ignazio Silone , Ennio Flaiano | ||
| 2016 | (not awarded) | |||
| 2017 | Reimar Klein | including Roberto Calasso , Giorgio Colli , Carlo Michelstaedter , Pier Paolo Pasolini | ||
| 2020 | Friederike Hausmann | including Girolamo Arnaldi , Carlo M. Cipolla , Luigi Pintor , Salvatore Settis | ||
Young Talent Award
| German-Italian Translator Award - Young Talent Award | ||||
| Year of award |
Translator | Title of the translation |
Original title and author | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Monica Pesetti |
Io e Kaminski and Leptis Magna |
Me and Kaminski from Daniel Kehlmann and Leptis Magna from Hartmut Lange |
|
| 2009 | Esther Hansen | Sardinian vendetta | La memoria del vuoto by Marcello Fois | |
| 2010 | Stefano Zangrando | Adam e Evelyn | Adam and Evelyn from Ingo Schulze | |
| 2011 | Julika Brandestini | Accabadora | Accabadora by Michela Murgia | |
| 2012 | Giusi Drago | È morto Tito | Tito is dead from Marica Bodrožić | |
| 2013 | Mirjam Bitter | Bread and storms | Pane e tempesta by Stefano Benni | |
| 2014 | Antonella Salzano | Not sono un berlinese | I'm not a Berliner by Wladimir Kaminer | |
| 2015 | Julia Dengg | Un giorno della vita | Un giorno della vita by Giorgio Orelli | |
| 2016 |
Angela Scròfina and Ylenia Carola |
Ancora tempesta | Still storm from Peter Handke | |
| 2017 | Martin Hallmannsecker | Maestro Cupid | Maestro Amor by Luigi Pirandello | |
| 2018 | Daria Biagi | Materia great | Raw material from Jörg Fauser | |
| 2020 | Carola Koehler | Kobane Calling and The Days of the Blackbird | Kobane Calling by Zerocalcare and I giorni della merla by Manuele Fior (Graphic Novels) | |
Web links
- Website of the price; accessed October 23, 2018.
- German-Italian translation award on the website of the Goethe Institute ; accessed October 23, 2018.
- Premio Italo-Tedesco per la Traduzione on the website of the Centro per il Libro e la Lettura; accessed October 23, 2018.
Remarks
- ↑ see tender text for the 2015 Translator Award at the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB). The Centro per il Libro e la Lettura is an independent body of the Italian Ministry of Culture, s. Chi siamo , website of Cepell; accessed October 23, 2018
- ↑ Website of the award: Jury ; accessed October 23, 2018.
- ↑ Press release of the Goethe-Institut Italy (pdf) , Rome, May 2018; accessed October 23, 2018.
- ↑ see tender text for the 2015 Translator Award at the LCB. Until 2009 the prizes were endowed with € 7,500, cf. Archive of award ceremonies: Award ceremony 2009 ( Memento from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ); accessed October 23, 2018.
- ↑ see tender text for the 2015 translator award at the LCB; accessed October 23, 2018.