Susan Sontag

FEBRUARY 2010

Anthology Film Archives in New York City is screening Susan Sontag's Promised Lands (1974), long unseen and out of circulation, in a new digital copy, courtesy of The Film Desk. The film opens February 4th for one week only. This is a rare opportunity to view Sontag's third directorial effort and her only documentary. Selected screenings will be introduced by special guests, including artist Paul Chan, and critics Melissa Anderson and Ed Halter. For showtimes, tickets, and further details, click here. On the occasion of this release, Paul Chan has designed a new screen print in a numbered edition of 100, with all proceeds going to support The Film Desk. Contact The Film Desk for more information and pricing.

NOVEMBER 2009

Roanne Sharp, the 2009 Translation Prize winner, traveled to Buenos Aires with members of the Foundation for an awards ceremony and literary symposium. The three-day symposium focused on issues of translation and the Argentine writer Juan José Saer. The events were hosted by Fundación TyPA, with the support of Fundación PROA, the United States Embassy in Argentina, and the Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires. Click here to view photos of the events. Further information can be found at www.typa.org.ar.

OCTOBER 2009

Call to Applicants for 2010 Susan Sontag Prize for Translation. The Prize will be offered for a proposed translation of a work of fiction from Norwegian, Danish, Swedish or Icelandic into English.

MAY 2009

The second annual Susan Sontag Prize for Translation was awarded to Roanne Sharp for her proposed translation of La Mayor by Juan José Saer. Honorable Mentions were awarded to Rosemary Peele for her proposed translation of Viaje olvidado and Autobiografía de Irene by Silvina Ocampo and to Emily Toder for her proposed translation of Tres poemas y una merced (o cuatro poemas desplazados) by Sergio Chefjec.

SEPTEMBER 2008

Call to Applicants for 2009 Prize.

JUNE 2008

The 2008 Translation Prize winners attended the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize Awards Ceremony in Chicago. There, they took part in the Goethe-Institut sponsored symposium on Literature in Translation and Independent Publishing. In attendance were this year’s Helen and Kurt Wolff Prizewinner David Dollenmayer (Moses Rosenkranz’ Childhood: An Autobiographical Fragment) as well as representatives from Deutschlandfunk, The American Literary Translators Association, Words Without Borders, Northwestern University Press, Melville House, Milkweed Editions, Open Letter, Archipelago Books, Dalkey Archive, Ugly Duckling Press, Kookbooks and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize Jury.

MARCH 2008

The first Susan Sontag Prize for Translation was awarded to Kristin Dickinson, Robin Ellis and Priscilla Layne for their proposed translation of Feridun Zaimoğlu’s Koppstoff: Kanaka Sprak vom Rande der Gesellschaft.