This year's winner of the the ACF Translation Prize is Damion Searls. Celebrate this occasion with an evening dedicated to Austrian literature in translation. The event will be followed by a reception with authentic Austrian snacks.
Searls will receive the award for his translation of Austrian playwright and novelist Elfriede Jelinek’s essay her not all her (on/with Robert Walser) [er nicht als er (zu, mit Robert Walser)], first published in 1998, and dedicated to the Swiss writer Robert Walser. Elfriede Jelinek was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004.
Michael Orthofer (The Literary Saloon) will present the winner of the 2011 ACF Translation Prize. Martin Rauchbauer (Deutsches Haus at NYU) will engage Damion Searls in a conversation titled “NOT ALL HER”, which will be followed by a short reading of the winning text.
Damion Searls is an American translator and writer, whose translations of German, Dutch, French and Norwegian literature include writers like Proust, Rilke, Handke, Robert Walser and Ingeborg Bachmann.
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