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Juan Carrillo del Saz, student of our Bachelor's degree in Translation and Interpreting, has just been awarded the XXIV Andreu Febrer Translation Prize

Juan Carrillo del Saz, student of our Bachelor's degree in Translation and Interpreting, has just been awarded the XXIV Andreu Febrer Translation Prize, in the undergraduate students category, for his Catalan version Cuatro Poemas en prosa de Ocnos, by Luis Cernuda.
29.06.2020

 

 

«I am delighted to receive this award because I submitted a translation into Catalan, which is not my mother tongue. Since I moved to Barcelona, five years ago, I have been struggling to master this language, that I have learnt to love. Also, to win such a prestigious award with a translation of Cernuda makes me even happier. These poems have always been by my side since I was a teenager, so to put them in another language has been a beautiful experience», says Juan.

As for translation difficulties, he highlights that «it was especially hard to convey the cadence, the rhythm, noticeable yet subtle, underlying these prose poems. When it comes to translation, the prose poem is always a difficult genre, because they do have a rhythmic structure, but you have to look for it. Sometimes, it is not as salient as in verse poetry. Also, in the poems of Ocnos, it is precisely the meter that makes them sound so elegant, so it has to be kept in the translation».

This award, convoked by the University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, recognizes the best translations into Catalan and Spanish by translation students about a topic proposed by the organizing committee, which this year was poetry translation

 

 

 

 

 

For more information: 

https://www.tradiling.net/premi-andreu-febrer-2020-candidatures-guanyadores/

https://www.uvic.cat/uhub/activitats/premis/premi-de-traduccio-andreu-febrer

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