The Royal Society of Literature, the UK’s charity for the advancement of literature, has today announced that Professor Bernardine Evaristo OBE FRSL is to be the new President of the organisation when Dame Marina Warner steps down at the end of 2021.
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Jhumpa Lahiri headlines the 2020 Society of Authors Awards for her translation of ‘
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In London’s Bloomsbury, February 8. Image – iStockphoto: Josh Good
Five Winners Newly Announced
In London this morning (February 11), the Society of Authors which annually administers a large collection of endowed awards programs has announced the winners of its suite of 2020 translation awards.
The society, in fact, is a trade union that handles many more prize programs than this, carrying in 2020 alone some £120,000 (US$159,994) in prizes for various competitions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as translation.
Today’s list brings together £13,000 (US$17,974) in winnings.