We're excited to report that Alyson Waters has won the French-American Foundation's 2020 Translation Prize (fiction category) for her translation of Jean Giono's A King Alone, which was published by NYRB Classics in June 2019. She will join the two winners of the nonfiction category, Michael Loriaux and Jacob Levi, on Thursday, September 10, at 1pm EDT for an online celebration via Zoom. The French-American Foundation will publish RSVP details for the event on their website next month. Information about the Translation Prize can be found by following this link.

And look out for more work from Alyson Waters in just a few weeks: Her translation of Jean-Patrick Manchette's No Room at the Morgue arrives on August 11 from NYRB Classics.

The Arkansas International has set up a memorial page for author, journalist, and translator Frederika Randall, who died on May 12, 2020, at her home in Rome. On the page you can read tributes from Tim Parks, Jhumpa Lahiri, Giacomo Sartori, and others. Jim Hicks and Olivia Spears have also penned tributes to Randall at The Massachusetts Review and the Center for the Art of Translation, respectively.

For NYRB Classics, Randall translated Guido Morselli's The Communist and Dissipatio H.G., the latter of which will be published in December of this year.

"We are lucky to live in a time that boasts many fine translators of Italian prose, but even in that good company her brilliance stood out, and those of us who love Italian literature, or the art of translation, are poorer now." —Geoffrey Brock, editor-in-chief of The Arkansas International

Though in-person events are off the table for the indefinite future, we have plenty of virtual events coming up, including two later this month.

The first is a conversation between Katherine Silver, translator of Julio Ramòn Ribeyro's The Word of the Speechless (published in fall 2019 by NYRB Classics), and the award-winning novelist Mauro Javier Cárdenas. Hosted by City Lights Booksellers & Publishers, the event will take place on Zoom on Thursday, May 14, at 9pm EST. For more information and to reserve a spot, click here.

To celebrate the release of Curzio Malaparte's Diary of a Foreigner in Paris, NYRB Classics editorial director Edwin Frank will join author Gary Indiana for a discussion of the book. Hosted by Community Bookstore, the event will take place on Crowdcast on Thursday, May 21, at 7:30pm EST. To register and learn more, click here.

Be sure to check our events page and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to hear about more online book talks in the coming months.

New York Review Books will be at this year's AWP Conference & Bookfair from Thursday, March 5, to Saturday, March 7. If you're attending the conference, we'd love for you to stop by and say hello! You can find us at booth 1058 in the Henry B. González Convention Center. We'll have a selection of discounted titles available along with free copies of The New York Review of Books. Follow this link to see the bookfair map and a list of exhibitors.

On Thursday, February 6, at 6pm, join us at the New York Institute for the Humanities for a special talk to celebrate the 20th anniversary of NYRB Classics. Moderated by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, "Writing on the Run: Classics About Travel and Place" will feature Yasmine El Rashidi on Sleepless Nights (Elizabeth Hardwick), Suketu Mehta on Jejuri (Arun Kolatkar), Daniel Mendelsohn on Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Emily Raboteau on An African in Greenland (Tété-Michel Kpomassie). This is the second of four planned talks on NYRB Classics, so look out for more events later this year. Follow this link to RSVP.

Congratulations to Daniel Mendelsohn and Eve Babitz, whose respective essay collections Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones and I Used to Be Charming are longlisted for the 2020 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. This year's judges are Jelani Cobb, Daniel Menaker, and Judith Thurman. Finalists for the award will be announced in January 2020, and the winner will be celebrated at the 2020 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony on March 2 in New York City. 

New York Review Comics will be at this year's Comic Arts Brooklyn book festival on Saturday, November 2 from 11am–7pm. Find us at table A3 in Pratt Institute's Activities Resource Center to browse our titles, all of which will be available at discounted prices. Admission to the festival is free. It's sure to be a lot of fun!

Also, be sure to catch Frank Santoro, author of the recent NYR Comics release Pittsburgh, in conversation with journalist Calvin Reid at Pratt Institute's ARC Building at 4pm. Learn more about the event here. Santoro will be signing copies of Pittsburgh at our table from 5–6pm.

New York Review Books will be at the Brooklyn Book Festival Children's Day on Saturday, September 21 from 10am–4pm at table #30, and at the festival's Literary Marketplace on Sunday, September 22 from 10am–6pm at booths #409 & 410. The Children's Day is being hosted at Metrotech Commons, and the Literary Marketplace at Brooklyn Borough Hall and its vicinity. We'll have a wide variety of our titles on sale at discounted prices — please come visit us!

Five of our authors will be participating in festival events on the 22nd: Maxim Osipov, Mark Alan Stamaty, Daniel Mendelsohn, Amit Chaudhuri, and Frank Santoro. Learn more about their events here.