Congratulations, Nat'l Translation Award Winner

[Sibelan E S Forrester]

The winner of the 2006 National Translation 
Award, presented by the American Literary 
Translators Association, is David Albahari's 
novel Götz and Meyer, translated from the Serbian 
by Ellen Elias-Bursac (Harcourt, Inc., 2004).

The Times Literary Supplement calls this "An 
extraordinary and gravely moving novel"; The 
Irish Times' review says, "Many powerful books 
have been written about war--the crimes, the 
victims, the legacies--and this stark, marvelous 
work is yet another which revisits the horror, 
the sadness and the anger while also offering a 
fresh eloquence, a new profundity and a rare 
sense of what it is to be human."  In the words 
of The San Diego Union-Tribune, "GOTZ AND MEYER 
is an astonishing feat.  It is a novel in which 
craft and content are inextricably woven, in 
which the telling and the told could be no other 
way."

Congratulations to Ellen, and thanks for bringing 
such exciting literary work to an 
English-language readership.

Respectfully submitted,

SF

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