Society of Authors Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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“A book that will leave you gasping for air by the time you finish it” (judge Alex Preston) Our final award of the night, the Betty Trask Prize, goes to @WillMcPhail for IN: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL (@HodderBooks, @SceptreBooks). Huge congrats! 🏆 #SoAwards https://societyofauthors.org/News/News/2022/June/2022-Society-of-Authors-winners https://t.co/Um0z5VFvqT

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A double congratulations to Sarah Death for being both a runner-up and the winner of this year’s Bernard Shaw Prize. Her winning translation was of LETTERS FROM TOVE by Tove Jansson and edited by Boel Westin and Helen Svensson (@SortofBooks) 🎉 Sponsored by @swedeninuk https://t.co/tPfOeIANpx

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“Your feeling for detail, for words… it’s a gift” Jaap Robben congratulating David Doherty on winning the Vondel Translation Prize for a translation of Jaap’s book, SUMMER BROTHER (@WorldEdBooks). Congrats David!🏆 Sponsored by @DutchLiterature. #TranslationPrizes21 #SoAPrizes https://t.co/hP34Hh2AHC

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‘An exceptional translation in so many ways.’ Our Scott Moncrieff Prize winner is Sarah Ardizzone for a translation of MEN DON’T CRY by Faïza Guène (@cassavarepublic) Huge congratulations! 🎉 #TranslationPrizes https://t.co/E7PN1x2fzA

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This is wonderful - Translating the Untranslatable to mark #InternationalTranslationDay. 13 translators and Joyce's Ulysses... 👇 https://t.co/5bUpYUQSZK

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Congratulations to @aaminaahmad, WINNER of The Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize for The Return of Faraz Ali (@SceptreBooks). ‘Aamina Ahmad’s novel of loss, shame, good intentions, love and loyalty is offered to us with the rawness of life itself.’ (Judge Kerry Young) #SoAwards https://t.co/gEyszlCamI

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Love, translation, indy publishing and more - book for our fab Feb 2022 #SoAatHome... 1 February | 18:00 - Who's Loving You? Depictions of love by women of colour https://www2.societyofauthors.org/event/industry-insider-whos-loving-you-depictions-of-love-by-women-of-colour/ @RowanHLB @DanielleDASH @SareetaDomingo @sarajafari @kuchenga @AGlasgowGirl @practicalmyth

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“A special thank you to Bill Swainson for being willing to take a risk on an unknown translator.” @JackieTransl8 & editor @SwainsonBill win the TA First Translation Prize for a translation of AN INVENTORY OF LOSSES by Judith Schalansky (@maclehosepress) 🏆 #TranslationPrizes21 https://t.co/sU1y7L3BET

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👑🏆 Congratulations to Sarah Enany and her translation of THE GIRL WITH BRAIDED HAIR by Rasha Adly (@HoopoeFiction an imprint of @AUCPress), this year’s winner of the Saif Ghobash @BanipalPrize. #TranslationPrizes21 #SoAPrizes https://t.co/MFVnFoNEEr

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…And our second 2022 Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize winner is @RobinMoger for a translation of SLIPPING by Mohamed Kheir (@TwoLinesPress) Congratulations both! ✨ #TranslationPrizes https://t.co/6tDzcrRio8