{"id":4636,"date":"2015-10-03T11:25:12","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T11:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/?p=4636"},"modified":"2015-10-03T11:26:37","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T11:26:37","slug":"norla-s-translator-s-award-2015-to-the-bulgarian-eva-kaneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/norla-s-translator-s-award-2015-to-the-bulgarian-eva-kaneva\/","title":{"rendered":"NORLA\u2019s Translator\u2019s Award 2015 to the Bulgarian Eva Kaneva!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"excerpt\">\n<p>During the celebration of the patron saint of translators, St. Jerome, on 01 October in Oslo, NORLA\u2019s translator\u2019s award was announced for the tenth time. The award is given annually to a translator of Norwegian literature and was established to bring into the public eye the contribution foreign translators make to Norwegian literature. The award shall go to a young translation talent and is intended to encourage a continued investment in Norwegian literature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"body\">\n<p>Every second year the award goes to translators of non-fiction and fiction, respectively. This year\u2019s award is for fiction, and the prize money is granted courtesy of former <span class=\"caps\">NORLA<\/span>Director Kristin Brudevoll\u2019s Anniversary Fund.<br \/>\nThe translator\u2019s award is a prize of <span class=\"caps\">NOK<\/span> 20,000, and a free stay in Oslo of up to three weeks \u2013 availability permitting, in the writer\u2019s flat in the House of Literature.<br \/>\nNORLA\u2019s Translator\u2019s Award 2015 goes to Eva Dimitrova Kaneva, who translates from Norwegian into Bulgarian.<\/p>\n<p>Eva Kaneva was born in Bulgaria in 1985 and has a Master\u2019s degree in translation and Nordic literature from the University of Sofia. Kaneva has achieved recognition as a talented young translator into Bulgarian. She has experience with translations of a range of different texts and the breadth of her professional expertise finds reflection in the diversity of authors and periods represented by the works she has translated. Among the authors she has translated we find Henrik Ibsen, Sigrid Undset, Karin Fossum, Anne Holt, Jo Nesb\u00f8, Hilde Hagerup and Endre Lund Eriksen. Her translation of Sigrid Undset\u2019s <i>Kristin Lavransdatter<\/i> has been praised by many as a rendition faithful to the original trilogy\u2019s historical and emotional atmosphere, conveyed in a varied and rich Bulgarian.<\/p>\n<p>We anticipate that Eva Kaneva\u2019s work will contribute to the translation of even more Norwegian authors into Bulgarian, both from the classics and contemporary authors.<br \/>\n<b>We congratulate Eva Kaneva on the receipt of NORLA\u2019s Translator\u2019s Award 2015!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Eva Kaneva resides in Sofia, Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about <a href=\"http:\/\/norla.no\/en\/pages\/218-NORLA-s-Translator-s-Award\">NORLA\u2019s Translator\u2019s Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the celebration of the patron saint of translators, St. Jerome, on 01 October in Oslo, NORLA\u2019s translator\u2019s award was announced for the tenth time. The award is given annually to a translator of Norwegian literature and was established to bring into the public eye the contribution foreign translators make to Norwegian literature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,79,82],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4638,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/4638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evropaworld.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}