Live Breaking News & Updates on National Book Awardfortranslated Literature

Bill Robinson
Register Correspondent
Dec 26, 2020
Morgan Giles holds the book she translated from Japanese. The novel won the National Book Award for Translated Literature this year.
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A 2001 community exchange trip to Japan as a middle school student set Richmond native Morgan Giles on a path which led her translating from Japanese the novel that won the National Book Award for Translated Literature this year.
The National Book Awards rank in significance with the Pulitzer Prizes, but the Pulitzers give no prize for translated literature. Thus, the NBA is the highest recognition in that category. The awards were announced Nov. 18 just before Giles flew from her home in London, England, to visit with her parents in Richmond. ....

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