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The French-American Foundation and The Florence Gould Foundation Announce Finalists of 22nd Annual Translation Prizes
New York, NY (April 29, 2009) - The French-American Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation announce the finalists for their 22nd Annual Translation Prizes for superior English translations of French works published in 2008. There will be one award for translation in fiction, and a second for non-fiction.
The Beast Within by Emile Zola, translated by Roger Whitehouse nominated for the fiction award.
Book: Paperback | 5.07 x 7.79in | 464 pages | ISBN 9780140449631 | 29 Jan 2008 | Penguin Classic | 18 - AND UP
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About The Beast Within: A superb new translation of one of the most intense and explicit works of the nineteenth-century French master Émile Zola considered The Beast Within-also known as La Bête Humaine-to be his "most finely worked" novel. This new translation finally captures his fast-paced yet deliberately dispassionate style. Set at the end of the Second Empire, when French society seemed to be hurtling into the future like the new railways and locomotives it was building, The Beast Within is at once a tale of murder, passion, and possession and a compassionate study of individuals derailed by the burden of inherited evil. In it, Zola expresses the hope that human nature evolves through education but warns that the beast within continues to lurk beneath the veneer of technological progress.
About Roger Whitehouse: Roger Whitehouse has taught at the Sorbonne and at Bolton Institute, where he is a research fellow.
Winners of the fiction and non-fiction prizes will receive a cash prize of $10,000 each, funded by the Florence Gould Foundation. They will be honored at a special ceremony on May 26 in New York.
Jurors for this year's competition include Linda Asher, Tom Bishop, Antoine Compagnon, Linda Coverdale, Richard Howard and Lily Tuck.
About The French-American Foundation: The French-American Foundation is the principal non-governmental link between France and the United States at leadership levels and across the full range of the French-American relationship.
About The Florence Gould Foundation: The Florence Gould Foundation is an American foundation devoted to French-American exchange and friendship. Born of French parents in San Francisco in 1895, Florence Gould lived both in the United States and France during her lifetime. At her death in 1993, Florence Gould left the bulk of her fortune to the foundation bearing her name.
Past Winners:
2003 • Lydia Davis for her translation Swann's Way by Marcel Proust (Viking Press)
1997 • Linda Coverdale for her translation of Literature or Life by Jorge Semprun (Viking Penguin)
