Daniel Slager, the former Harcourt editor and new editor-in-chief of
Milkweed Editions, has won the American Translators Association's Ungar
Award for his translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Auguste Rodin
(Archipelago Books, $30, 0972869255). The award is given biennially for
a translation from German into English published in the U.S.
Glückwünsche, Daniel.
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Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat has won the inaugural Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
Lloyd C. Blankfein, president and CEO of Goldman Sachs, commented, "Thomas Friedman has identified the most important economic and political theme of the early 21st century and has provided us with the vocabulary for debating its merits and challenges."
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Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat has won the inaugural Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award.
Lloyd C. Blankfein, president and CEO of Goldman Sachs, commented, "Thomas Friedman has identified the most important economic and political theme of the early 21st century and has provided us with the vocabulary for debating its merits and challenges."