John DuVal has won the Raiziss/de Palchi Prize for his translation of Tales of Trilussa
by Carlo Alberto Salustri (University of Arkansas Press), a $5,000
award sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and given every other
year for the translation into English of significant work of modern
Italian poetry. The judges for the award were Geoffrey Brock, Charles
Martin, and Michael Palma.
Palma commented: "Trilussa's poems can be successfully carried over into another language only by retaining--or, more precisely, re-creating--the dexterity and the bite of the originals, and in John DuVal Trilussa has found his ideal translator. . . . The people of Trastevere love their poets. Like Belli, Trilussa is commemorated by a public square and a statue along the Tiber. And he has an equally handsome tribute in English, in the form of John DuVal's Tales from Trilussa."
The winner directs the program in literary translation at the University of Arkansas and has translated a range of works from Italian and French. He won the 1992 Harold Morton Landon Prize for the Translation of Poetry, also sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, for his translation of Cesare Pascarella's The Discovery of America.
Palma commented: "Trilussa's poems can be successfully carried over into another language only by retaining--or, more precisely, re-creating--the dexterity and the bite of the originals, and in John DuVal Trilussa has found his ideal translator. . . . The people of Trastevere love their poets. Like Belli, Trilussa is commemorated by a public square and a statue along the Tiber. And he has an equally handsome tribute in English, in the form of John DuVal's Tales from Trilussa."
The winner directs the program in literary translation at the University of Arkansas and has translated a range of works from Italian and French. He won the 1992 Harold Morton Landon Prize for the Translation of Poetry, also sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, for his translation of Cesare Pascarella's The Discovery of America.