Winners Announced for ALTA's 2018 Translations Awards in Poetry and Fiction

After an impressive shortlist for ALTA's 2018 Translation Awards, the organization has honored Third-Millennium Heart by Ursula Andkjær Olsen, translated from the Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen and published by Action Books, with this year's award. For fiction, Mathias Énard's Compass, translated by Charlotte Mandell and published by New Directions, takes home the honor. About Third-Millennium Heart the judges write:

Danish poet Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s compelling work travels through dark chambers of desire, power, and creation, conjuring up a feminist space where culture and nature wage war with one another, where psychology and anatomy merge to create a uniquely modern mytho-poetics. Katrine Øgaard Jensen’s masterful translation has a strong rhythm all its own, and captures the book’s jarring quality in a remarkably smooth rendering. By the end of this insidious text, the reader is just as “namedrunk” as the book’s enigmatic lyrical subject, and discovers that their own “heartspace,” too, has been torn open, dissected, and beautifully recreated.

Read on at ALTA's site here.