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White Pine Press in Buffalo, NY, has announced the first winner of its newly-established Cliff Becker Prize in Translation. A Hand Full of Water, a collection of poems by Bulgarian-born German writer Tzveta Sofronieva, will be published in a bilingual edition translated by Chantal Wright in fall 2012. Renowned translator Willis Barnstone, the judge for this year's contest, stated: “Tzveta Sofronieva’s poetry sparkles...Her A Hand Full of Water is the most compelling volume in German verse since the work of Ingeborg Bachman and Hans Magnus Enzensberger....The lucent version by Chantal Wright captures the verve and fluid images of Sofornieva’s poetry....In the best sense her translation stands as an original book of poetry.”
Nobel-Prize winning neuropsychiatrist Eric Kandel talks with Paul Holdengräber about the unconscious in fin-de-siecle Vienna, the subject of his just-published book that features Freud, Schnitzler, Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele.
The UK's 'Independent' Foreign Fiction Prize honors modern writing in translation and is unique in that its £10,000 purse is divided equally between author and translator. This year's longlist, representing 12 languages and gleaned from 100 entries, includes two titles translated from the German: Judith Hermann's short story collection, 
Broadway producer Ken Wydro has written a play about the close relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Titled 
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The jury of the Leipzig Book Prize has announced its nominees for the 2012 Prizes, to be awarded in three categories -- Fiction, Non-Fiction and Translation into German -- during this year's Leipzig Book Fair, which takes place from March 15 to 18.