Antonella Anedda's Historiae (NYRB Poets), translated from the Italian by Patrizio Ceccagnoli and Susan Stewart, and Elsa Morante's Lies and Sorcery (NYRB Classics), translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee, have been shortlisted for the 2024 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. A contemporary collection of poetry on the long history of the Mediterranean and the first novel by a giant of twentieth-century Italian literature, respectively, these books are recognized here for "excellence in book-length literary translation into English from any living European language."
The winner of the prize will be announced on the annual Oxford Translation Day, which will take place on Saturday, 15 June, at St Anne’s College. Read more here.