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    The HFC Literary Translation Prize for 2008 is awarded to Roderick Beaton for the translation of the book "Levant Journal" by George Seferis.
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    The exhibit entitled "Defenders of Democracy" opened at the Malliotis Cultural Center in Boston on September 25th, an exhibit organized by the Kostas and Maria Malliotis Foundation and the Malliotis Cultural Center. Defenders of Democracy: The American Response to Greece's role in World War II is an exhibition of photographs, memorabilia, newspapers, magazines and ephemera from the private collection of Gregory C. Pappas.
Sep 29 2008
Translation prize awarded to Roderick Beaton
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29.09.08
The HFC Literary Translation Prize for 2008 is awarded to Roderick Beaton for the translation of the book "Levant Journal" by George Seferis. The award was launched for the first time in 2002 by the HFC and it is presented every three years. The Prize concerns literary translation from Greek to English and is open to participants from all the English-speaking countries. This year's winner, Roderick Beaton, professor of Contemporary and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, at King's College, University of London, was selected by the five-member jury comprising the professors of Modern Greek, D.Reecks (King's College), D. Papanicolaou (Oxford University) and Ch. Vlavianos, poet-translator.
The Literary Translation Prize awarding ceremony will take place in Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Centre) today. Sir Peter Stothard, editor-in-chief of the Times Literary Supplement magazine will give Beaton his prize. The event also includes readings from the awarded books and a speech by the famous writer Louis de Bernier, entitled "A Tale of Translation".
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