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Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri wins John Florio Prize for translation

Newspaper: The Society of Authors
Date: Feb 12 2021
URL: https://www.societyofauthors.org/News/News/2021/February/Translation-Prizes-winners-announcement

‘Writer and translator in powerful harmony’ – Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri wins John Florio Prize for translation

Author takes the 2020 John Florio Prize for her ‘exceptional’ and ‘agile’ translation from Italian of Trick by Domenico Starnone, in the Society of Authors’ annual Translation Prizes.

“Not so much a translation, as an English double.”