Jackie Smith
Jackie Smith was selected for the New Books in German Emerging Translators Program and in 2017 won the Austrian Cultural Forum London Translation Prize.
The stylistic flair, and variety of voice, in Jackie Smith’s mesmerizing translation turn Schalansky’s reminder that ‘Being alive means experiencing loss’ into a journey full of colour, contrast and bittersweet pleasures. An Inventory of Losses is a thoroughly memorable winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation – and one that will surely endure.—Warwick Prize winners citation, Boyd Tonkin
Jackie Smith was selected for the New Books in German Emerging Translators Program and in 2017 won the Austrian Cultural Forum London Translation Prize.
The stylistic flair, and variety of voice, in Jackie Smith’s mesmerizing translation turn Schalansky’s reminder that ‘Being alive means experiencing loss’ into a journey full of colour, contrast and bittersweet pleasures. An Inventory of Losses is a thoroughly memorable winner of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation – and one that will surely endure.—Warwick Prize winners citation, Boyd Tonkin