Winners of the 2022 ALTA Awards, sponsored by the American Literary Translators Association, are:
National Translation Award in Poetry: Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri, translated from Italian by D. M. Black (NYRB Classics)
National Translation Award in Prose: The Morning Star by Karl Ove Knausgaard, translated from Norwegian by Martin Aitken (Penguin Press)
Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize: Cold Candies by Lee Young-ju, translated from Korean by Jae Kim (Black Ocean)
Italian Prose in Translation Award: Penelope by Silvana La Spina, translated from Italian by Anna Chiafele and Lisa Pike (Bordighera Press)
Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award: The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpí, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia by Max Besora, translated from Catalan by Mara Faye Lethem (Open Letter Books)
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The shortlist for the £50,000 (about $55,180) 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction has been announced. The winner will be announced November 17. The shortlist:
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British by Caroline Elkins
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown by Anna Keay
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor's Story by Polly Morland
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell