Stacey Knecht (born 1957 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American translator. She primarily translates literary works from the Czech, Hungarian, Spanish, Dutch and Flemish languages into English. She won the

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(1993) for her translation of ''Back to the Congo'' by Lieve Joris, and the inaugural

Vondel Prize The Vondel Prize is a literary translation prize for full-length works from the Dutch language, Dutch into English. The prize was established in 1996 by the Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch-language literature, Dutch literatur ...

(1996) for her translation of ''The Great Longing'' by

Marcel Möring Marcel Möring (born 5 September 1957, in Enschede Enschede (; local ) is a list of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the province of Overijssel and the Twente region of the e ...

. She was also a runner-up for the 2015

Best Translated Book Award The Best Translated Book Award was an American literary award that recognized the previous year's best original translation into English, one book of poetry and one of fiction. It was inaugurated in 2008 and was conferred by Three Percent, the onl ...

for her translation of ''Harlequin’s Millions'' by

Bohumil Hrabal Bohumil Hrabal (; 28 March 1914 – 3 February 1997) was a Czech Republic, Czech writer, often named among the best Czech writers of the 20th century. Early life Hrabal was born in Židenice (suburb of Brno) on 28 March 1914, in what was then ...

. She lives in

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in the Netherlands, and is an avid teacher of Dutch as a second language. Knecht is founder and director of the Books Away From Home Foundation, which provides refugee children with books in their native language, to help ease their transition to an unfamiliar place.

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