The Found in Translation Award is an annual award for the best translation of

Polish literature Polish literature is the literary tradition of Poland. Most Polish literature has been written in the Polish language, though other languages used in Poland over the centuries have also contributed to Polish literary traditions, including Latin, ...

into

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. The award is given to the

translator Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. The English language draws a terminological distinction (which does not exist in every language) between ''transla ...

(s) who also receive a cash prize of PLN 16,000. The Award was established by the Polish Book Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute in

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, the Polish Cultural Institute in

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and the W.A.B. Publishing House in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is official ...

. Since 2015, the FiT Award was awarded by the Polish Book Institute, the Polish Cultural Institute in London and the Polish Cultural Institute in New York (in 2016 they were joined by the Polish Institute in

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). The first winner of the award was announced in 2008.

Winners of the prize

2008 - Bill Johnston, translator of

Tadeusz Różewicz Tadeusz Różewicz (9 October 1921 – 24 April 2014) was a Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator. Różewicz was in the first generation of Polish writers born after Poland regained its independence in 1918, following the century of f ...

's ''New Poems'' (Archipelago Books, New York, 2007)
2009 - Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of Paweł Huelle's ''The Last Supper'' (Serpent's Tail, 2008)
2010 - Danuta Borchardt, translator of

Witold Gombrowicz Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937 he published his fi ...

's ''Pornografia'' (Grove/Atlantic, 2009)
2011 -

Clare Cavanagh Clare Cavanagh (born May 23, 1956) is an American literary critic, a Slavist, and a translator. She is the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern Unive ...

and

Stanisław Barańczak Stanisław Barańczak (, November 13, 1946December 26, 2014) was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer. He is perhaps most well known for his English-to- Polish translations of the dramas of William Shakespeare ...

, translators of

Wisława Szymborska Maria Wisława Anna SzymborskaVioletta Szosta gazeta.pl, 9 February 2012. ostęp 2012-02-11 (; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent ( ...

's ''Here'' (Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt, 2010)
2012 - Joanna Trzeciak, translator of

's ''Sobbing Superpower'' (W.W. Norton, 2011)
2013 - Antonia Lloyd-Jones, translator of seven books published in 2012:
- Paweł Huelle's ''Cold Sea Stories'' (Comma Press, 2012)
-

Jacek Dehnel Jacek Maria Dehnel (born 1 May 1980 in Gdańsk, Poland) is a Polish poet, writer, translator and painter. Life and work He graduated from the Stefan Żeromski High School No. 5 in Gdańsk, where he excelled in Humanities. Dehnel studied at the ...

's ''Saturn'' (Dedalus Press, 2012)
- Zygmunt Miłoszewski's ''A Grain of Truth'' (Bitter Lemon Press, 2012)
- Artur Domosławski's ''Ryszard Kapuściński, A Life'' (Verso Books, 2012)
-

Wojciech Jagielski Wojciech Jagielski (born 12 September 1960) is a Polish journalist and author. He has won acclaim for his reportage from conflict zones in the Transcaucasus, the Caucasus, Central Asia and Africa. He worked for the leading Polish newspaper Gazeta ...

's ''The Night Wanderers'' (Seven Stories & Old Street Publishing, 2012)
- Andrzej Szczeklik's ''Kore: On Sickness, the Sick and the Search for the Soul of Medicine'' (Counterpoint Press, 2012)
-

Janusz Korczak Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit (22 July 1878 or 1879 – 7 August 1942), was a Polish Jewish educator, children's author and pedagogue known as ''Pan Doktor'' ("Mr. Doctor") or ''Stary Doktor'' ("Old Doctor"). After spending ...

's ''

Kaytek the Wizard ''Kaytek the Wizard'' ( pl, Kajtuś Czarodziej) (alternatively Kaytek the Sorcerer or Kaytek the Magician, with some title renderings retaining the original name Kaytus instead of Kaytek) is a 1933 Contemporary fantasy children's novel by Polish ...

'' (Urim Publications/Penlight Press, 2012)
2014 -

Philip Boehm Philip Boehm (born 1958) is an American playwright, theater director and literary translator. Born in Texas, he was educated at Wesleyan University, Washington University in St. Louis, and the State Academy of Theater in Warsaw, Poland. Boehm i ...

, translator of

Hanna Krall Hanna Krall (born 1935), is a Polish writer with a degree in journalism from the University of Warsaw, specializing among other subjects in the history of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. Personal life Krall is of Jewish origin, the daughter of S ...

's ''Chasing the King of Hearts'' (Peirene Press, 2013)
2015 - Ursula Phillips, translator of

Zofia Nałkowska Zofia Nałkowska (, Warsaw, Congress Poland, 10 November 1884 – 17 December 1954, Warsaw) was a Polish prose writer, dramatist, and prolific essayist. She served as the executive member of the prestigious Polish Academy of Literature (1933–193 ...

's ''Choucas'' (Northern Illinois University Press, 2014)
2016 - Bill Johnston, translator of

Tomasz Różycki Tomasz Różycki (born 1970) is a Polish poet and translator. He studied Romance Languages at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and taught French at the Foreign Languages Teaching College in Opole. In addition to his teaching, he translated ...

's ''Twelve Stations'' (Zephyr Press, Chicago, 2015)
2017 -

Piotr Florczyk Piotr Florczyk (born 18 May 1978 in Kraków, Poland) is a poet, translator, essayist, and critic. His honors include the 2017 Found in Translation Award (an annual prize for the best translation of Polish literature into English) and the 2017 Haro ...

, translator of Anna Świrszczyńska's volume of poetry ''Building the Barricade'' (Tavern Books, 2016)
2018 –

Jennifer Croft Jennifer Croft is an American author, critic and translator who works from Polish, Ukrainian and Argentine Spanish. With the author Olga Tokarczuk, she was awarded the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of '' Flights''. In 2 ...

, translator of ''

Flights Flight is the process by which an object moves without direct support from a surface. Flight may also refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Flight'' (1929 film), an American adventure film * ''Flight'' (2009 film), a South Korean d ...

'' by

Olga Tokarczuk Olga Nawoja Tokarczuk (; born 29 January 1962) is a Polish writer, activist, and public intellectual. She is one of the most critically acclaimed and successful authors of her generation in Poland; in 2019, she was awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize ...

2019 - Madeline G. Levine, translator of ''Collected Stories'' by

Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz (12 July 1892 – 19 November 1942) was a Polish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish-language prose stylists of the 20th century. In 1938, he was awarded the Polish Acade ...

2020 - Anna Zaranko, translator of ''The Memoir of an Anti-hero'' by Kornel Filipowicz
2021 - Ewa Małachowska-Pasek and Megan Thomas, translators of ''

The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma ''The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma'' ( Polish title: ''Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy'') is a 1932 Polish bestselling political novel by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz. It was his first major literary success, with immediate material rewards, prompting Mostow ...

'' by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz
2022 –

, translator of ''

The Books of Jacob ''The Books of Jacob'' ( pl, Księgi Jakubowe ) is an epic historical novel by Olga Tokarczuk, published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in October 2014. It is Tokarczuk's ninth novel and is the product of extensive historical research, taking her s ...

'' by

2023 - Anna Zaranko, translator of '' The Peasants'' by

Władysław Reymont Władysław Stanisław Reymont (, born Rejment; 7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel ''Chłopi'' (''The Peasants' ...

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References

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