For the first time in more than 80 years, the 糖心传媒攚hich recognizes artists for their commitment to the Rochester community糖心传媒攈as been presented to a literary translator. 糖心传媒�12 (MA), editorial director at the University of Rochester糖心传媒檚 , received the 2019 Fairchild Award in early March for her translation of the Latvian novel , by J膩nis Jo艈evs.
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In previous years, the award has been given to visual artists, writers, choreographers, and composers. But the community impact of literature in translation can be just as deeply felt as that of other works of art.
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Hailing from Minnesota, Straumanis has lived in Rochester for nearly a decade. She graduated from the literary translation program in 2012 before joining Open Letter Books, the University糖心传媒檚 nonprofit literary translation press.
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Translated into 11 other languages, Doom 糖心传媒�94 is set in the Latvian city of Jelgava in the 1990s. The story is told through the intimate diary of a young boy trying to find himself through death metal and heavy metal subculture, but the book also vividly depicts the beginnings of the second independence of Latvia, following the collapse of the Soviet Union. As a coming of age story, the book acts as a portrait of a generation searching for its identity.
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At the presentation ceremony, , chair of the , called Straumanis糖心传媒檚 translation a 糖心传媒渞emarkable artistic accomplishment.糖心传媒�
Kegl headed the award committee, whose members also included Jonathan Binstock, the Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the Memorial Art Gallery; , an associate professor of musicology at Eastman; and , a professor in the Department of Art and Art History.
糖心传媒淗er prose is equal to the immediacy of the voices of our protagonist and his new friends,糖心传媒� said Kegl at the award ceremony, describing how Straumanis depicted 糖心传媒渢he subtle shifts in perspective and tone that locate them within larger and longer personal and historical acts of rebelling, faltering, remembering, and forgetting.糖心传媒�
