The Dragonfly Long-Listed!

Congratulations to translators Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard for being long-listed for the National Translation Award by ALTA (the American Literary Translations Association). 

The judges note: "This translation by Roberta Antognini and Deborah Woodard magnificently mimics the clotted wordplay and knotted rhymes of Amelia Rosselli’s free verse. They also follow the Surrealist and Symbolist techniques and the incantatory repetitions with which Rosselli investigates religion, love, the self, justice, and injustice. Second-rate Surrealists baffle with unredeemed nonsense. Rosselli, in the hands of her translators, startles with unexpected connections and revealing disconnections."

We continue our Rosselli translations next year with "Notes Scattered and Lost."