Swallowing Mercury Shortlisted for National Translation Award
Wioletta Greg's Swallowing Mercury, translated from the Polish by Eliza Marciniak, has been named a finalist for the National Translation Awards (NTA) in Prose! 2018 marks the twentieth year for the NTA, which is administered by ALTA and is the only national award for translated fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction that includes a rigorous examination of both the source text and its relation to the finished English work.
Eliza Marciniak
This year’s prose judges are Esther Allen, Tess Lewis, and Jeremy Tiang. The awards will be announced at ALTA’s 41st annual conference, held this year at the Indiana Memorial Union at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN from October 31 – November 3, 2018.
Here are the shortlisted titles for prose:
Compass
by Mathias Énard
translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
(New Directions)
Dandelions
by Yasunari Kawabata
translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich
(New Directions)
Ghachar Ghochar
by Vivek Shanbhag
translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur
(Penguin Books)
The Impossible Fairy Tale
by Han Yujoo
translated from the Korean by Janet Hong
(Graywolf Press)
Old Rendering Plant
by Wolfgang Hilbig
translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole
(Two Lines Press)
Swallowing Mercury
by Wioletta Greg
translated from the Polish by Eliza Marciniak
(Transit Books)
Titles Available by Wioletta Greg:
Wioletta Greg
Translated by Eliza Marciniak
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize
In this celebrated debut from prize-winning poet Wioletta Greg, Wiola looks back on her youth in a close-knit, agricultural community in 1980s Poland. Her memories are precise, intense, distinctive, sensual: a playfulness and whimsy rise up in the gossip of the village women, rumored visits from the Pope, and the locked room in the dressmaker's house, while political unrest and predatory men cast shadows across this bright portrait. In prose that sparkles with a poet’s touch, Wioletta Greg's debut animates the strange wonders of growing up.