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Winner of the 2010 Robert Fagles Translation Prize Announced
October 2010--Graywolf Press and the National Poetry Series are pleased to announce that Eléna Rivera has been awarded the 2010 Robert Fagles Translation Prize. Ms. Rivera’s project, The Rest of the Voyage, is a
translation of the French poet Bernard
Noёl, and will be published in November 2011 by Graywolf Press. Acclaimed poet and translator Susan Stewart served as judge for this
year’s award, responding with this comment: “Eléna Rivera’s
translation of Bernard Noёl’s Le Reste du voyage/The Rest of the Voyage
is at once original and remarkably faithful. . . . The succession of poems has a
fluency that becomes as mesmerizing as any mode of transport, for Rivera is
remarkably adept at varying the lines, landing with emphasis or muting the
effect as she follows the speed and light of Noёl’s
themes.”
Eléna
Rivera is a recipient of a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts Literature
Fellowship in Translation, a Fundacíon Valparaíso 2009 residency in Mojácar,
Spain, and was awarded the 2007 Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency at
the Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico. Her translation of Isabelle Baladine
Howald’s Secret of Breath was
published by Burning Deck Press 2009. Other translations also can be found in the Chicago Review, Tuesday: An
Art Project,Circumference: Poetry in
Translation, and Tarpaulin Sky.
She is a poet and the author of Mistakes, Accidents and the Want
of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006), Suggestions at Every Turn (Seeing
Eye Books, 2005), and most recently Remembrance of Things Plastic (LRL
e-ed itions, 2010). She lives in New York City.
The National Poetry Series
established the Robert Fagles Translation Prize in 2007. This award is given every
other year to a translator who has shown exceptional skill in the translation
of contemporary international poetry into English. Previous winners are Marilyn
Hacker for King of a Hundred Horsemen (Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, 2008), and Lawrence Venuti for Edward Hopper (Graywolf Press, 2009).
Before his death in 2008, Mr. Fagles told National
Poetry Series Director, Daniel Halpern, “When you honor the act
of translation, you stand to make the act of reading what it is: an enterprise of interaction among different
times and different regions of the world itself.”
The National Poetry
Series was
established in 1978 to ensure the publication of poetry books annually through
participating publishers.
Publication is funded by the Lannan Foundation, Stephen Graham, Joyce
& Seward Johnson Foundation, Glenn & Renee Schaeffer, Juliet Lea
Hillman Simonds, and, the Edward T. Cone Foundation.
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