Translation Prizes

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We are proud to announce the following Translation Prizes have been awarded to one of our graduate students and one of our Alumni.

Sean Hughes, one of our Danish Teaching Assistants, was awarded the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Leif and Inger Sjöberg Award for his translation of “Cars and Animals: Short Stories (Biler og dyr)”.

Our Ph.D. alumna, Tara Chace, has won the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize for her translation of three short stories by Nicolai Houm. The short stories “Love” and “The Girls on Seestrasse” will be published in the Dirty Goat and “You and Me” will be published in the Arch Literary Journal.

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