{"id":9173,"date":"2012-10-07T07:18:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T11:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=9173"},"modified":"2012-10-07T07:18:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T11:18:12","slug":"sinan-antoons-darwish-translation-gets-alta-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/sinan-antoons-darwish-translation-gets-alta-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinan Antoon&#8217;s Darwish Translation Gets ALTA Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Arabic Literature (in English) blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Antoon Wins 2012 National Translation Award for \u2018In the Presence of\u00a0Absence\u2019<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Posted on\u00a0<a title=\"5:36 am\" href=\"http:\/\/arablit.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/07\/antoon-wins-2012-national-translation-award-for-in-the-presence-of-absence\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">October 7, 2012<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a title=\"View all posts by mlynxqualey\" href=\"http:\/\/arablit.wordpress.com\/author\/mlynxqualey\/\" rel=\"author\">mlynxqualey<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a title=\"Comment on Antoon Wins 2012 National Translation Award for \u2018In the Presence of\u00a0Absence\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/arablit.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/07\/antoon-wins-2012-national-translation-award-for-in-the-presence-of-absence\/#respond\">Leave a comment<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>On Friday, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.utdallas.edu\/alta\/\">American Literary Translators Association<\/a>\u00a0(ALTA) announced that it had honored two poet-translators, Sinan Antoon and Don Mee Choi:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/arablit.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/antoon-sinan-162-2012-101.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"antoon-sinan-162-2012-10\" data-src=\"http:\/\/arablit.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/antoon-sinan-162-2012-101.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"177\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 162px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 162\/177;\" \/><\/a>Sinan Antoon received the 2012 National Translation Award for his translation of Mahmoud Darwish\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/In-Presence-Absence-Mahmoud-Darwish\/dp\/1935744011\">In the Presence of Absence<\/a><\/em>. According to ALTA, \u201cThe $5,000 prize is given annually to a translator whose work, by virtue of its quality and significance, has made the most valuable contribution to literary translation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Elizabeth Lowe, ALTA VP, said in a news release that Antoon\u2019s work preserves a valuable treasure:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAntoon\u2019s translation won not only for the high quality of the translation from the Arabic, but also for being a translation of the last words by someone who is arguably one of the world\u2019s most important and beloved contemporary writers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[ctd. <a href=\"http:\/\/arablit.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/07\/antoon-wins-2012-national-translation-award-for-in-the-presence-of-absence\/\">here<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Arabic Literature (in English) blog: Antoon Wins 2012 National Translation Award for \u2018In the Presence of\u00a0Absence\u2019 Posted on\u00a0October 7, 2012\u00a0by\u00a0mlynxqualey\u00a0|\u00a0Leave a comment On Friday, the\u00a0American Literary Translators Association\u00a0(ALTA) announced that it had honored&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,1006],"tags":[500,1095],"class_list":["post-9173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation","category-translator","tag-mahmoud-darwish","tag-sinan-antoon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9178,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions\/9178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}