Jan Gielkens has won the Filter Translation Prize 2016 for his translation of The Words of Grimm by Günter Grass. The prize of ten thousand euros rewards the most exceptional translation achievement of the past year.
Grass' novel, published last year by Meulenhoff, makes high demands on the reader and the translator, the jury thought. 'Gielkens deftly navigates between Dutchification of the German, preservation of passages in the source language and radically new, target-language-oriented opl...
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