"Anna Karenina" a National Translation Award Finalist

A very good day.

First, my Anna Karenina got shortlisted for ALTA's National Translation Award,

And then, Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize.  

Possibly not in that order.

In 2001, I translated a couple of essays by Alexievich for Autodafé: The Journal of the International Parliament of Writers: "Go Where You Shouldn't" and "Enquêtes sur l'amour en Russie (Inquiries into Love in Russia),"  and in 2005, Words Without Borders published my translation of a story of hers, "The Wondrous Deer of the Eternal Hunt," which you can read here.