Yan Ge & Christina Hesselholdt Longlisted for Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2020
Yan Ge's White Horse (translated from Chinese by Nicky Harman) and Christina Hesselholdt's Vivian (translated from Danish by Paul Russell Garrett) are among the 16-strong longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2020.
The prize is judged by Amanda Hopkinson, Boyd Tonkin and Susan Bassnett and is worth £1,000, a sum shared equally between the writer and translator. It is given for the best eligible work of fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction, work of fiction for children or young adults, play text or graphic novel, written by a woman and translated into English by a translator of any gender. The shortlist for the prize will be announced in early November and the winner will be announced in an online ceremony on 26th November.