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2008 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation

In 2008, research assistants Kristin Dickinson, Robin Ellis and Priscilla Layne won the Susan Sontag Prize for Translation for their collaborative translation from German into English of “Koppstoff: Kanaka Sprak vom Rande der Gesellschaft” by Feridun Zaimoğlu. The book presents the fictionalized voices of 26 Turkish women living in Germany.

By Berkeley MGP
July 3, 2008
ArtlanguageMultilingualismtranslation
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