Platonov translations

[Robert Chandler]

Dear all,

The translation of Andrey Platonov’s novel SOUL (Harvill, 2003) by Robert
and Elizabeth Chandler and Olga Meerson with Jane Chamberlain, Olga
Kouznetsova and Eric Naiman was shortlisted for this year’s Oxford
Weidenfeld Translation Prize  -- as was the translation by R. Chandler et
al. of Platonov’s HAPPY MOSCOW (Harvill, 2001) two years ago.  R. & E.
Chandler's unpublished translation of part of Platonov’s unfinished ‘The
Macedonian Officer’ has been awarded joint second prize in this year’s John
Dryden Translation Competition.

The Weidenfeld Prize is for translations from any European language; the
Dryden Prize -- is also for translations from any language, provided they
have neither been published nor accepted for publication.

These small successes do not, however, mean that many books are actually
being sold  -- so I shall be more than grateful to any of you who persuade
libraries, friends, etc, to buy copies!

Robert Chandler

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