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  1. The 2020 Translation Prize Winners
  2. Headlines
  3. 2020 United States Presidential Election
  4. Help UNICEF to fight the coronavirus
  5. Previous Webinars
The 2020 Translation Prize Winners
The French-American Foundation, thanks to the generous support of the Florence Gould Foundation, is proud to announce the winners of this year’s Translation Prize competition:

  • Fiction winner: Alyson Waters, for her translation of “A King Alone” by Jean Giono, New York Review Books

  • Nonfiction winners: Michael Loriaux and Jacob Levi, for their co-translation of “Murderous Consent: on the Accommodation of Violent Death” by Marc Crépon, Fordham University Press

The Foundation will acknowledge their accomplishments with an online celebration that will be held over Zoom:

Thursday, September 10 at 1:00 pm EST
The Foundation will publish RSVP details online in August. The winners, joined with other notable literary professionals, will share thoughts on their work and take questions from interested members of the public.
" Alyson Waters  has translated the work of Vassilis Alexakis, Daniel Arasse, Albert Cossery, Louis Aragon, Emmanuel Bove, and Daniel Pennac, among several others. Her translation of Eric Chevillard’s Prehistoric Times won the 2012 Florence Gould/French-American Foundation Translation Prize. (...)". Read more .
" Michael Loriaux is Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and founder and Director of Northwestern’s French Interdisciplinary Group. He also directs Northwestern’s Paris Program on Art, Literature, and Contemporary European Thought, offered in partnership with the University of Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle. (...)". Read more.

" Jacob Levi is a scholar and translator of 20th Century European philosophy and literature. He is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University, and a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure. (...)". Read more.
Headlines
  • "The U.S. has agreed to pay Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE nearly $2 billion to secure 100 million doses of their experimental Covid-19 vaccine to provide to Americans free of charge.Under the $1.95 billion agreement, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Defense Department will receive 100 million doses of the vaccine should it be cleared by regulators, and can also acquire an additional 500 million doses. (...)"

  • "John Robert Lewis was born in 1940 near the Black Belt town of Troy, Alabama. His parents were sharecroppers, and he grew up spending Sundays with a great-grandfather who was born into slavery, and hearing about the lynchings of Black men and women that were still a commonplace in the region. (...)"

  • "Scientists caution against comparing immune responses shown in early-stage trials, and say there might be more than one path to an effective vaccine. (...)"

  • "Le président français a défendu sur TF1 l’accord européen qui porte sur 750 milliards d’euros, signé mardi matin à Bruxelles, et a assuré que des « ressources propres » au niveau européen rembourseront cette nouvelle dette partagée. (...)"
  • "Fearing nightmare scenarios such as attacks on voter registration databases and state websites tallying results, U.S. officials are leading simulated training exercises to get ready for Nov. 3. (...)"

  • "Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden rolled out a $775 billion proposal aimed at easing the burden on families struggling to care for their children and elderly relatives under the financial strain of the coronavirus pandemic. (...)"

  • "What are the questions that you really, deep down, have about the coming election? The ones you type into your search browser late at night? We pulled the top global search queries about US presidential elections. Here's what you should know about what's happening with the 2020 election and how it all works. (..)"

  • "Democratic candidate Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by 8 percentage points in support among registered voters, and the former vice president appears to have a significant advantage among voters who are undecided, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll. (...)"
Help UNICEF to fight the coronavirus
" The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) works in more than 190 countries and territories to put children first. UNICEF has helped save more children's lives than any other humanitarian organization, by providing health care and immunizations, clean water and sanitation, nutrition, education, emergency relief and more.

Even before the World Health Organization declared the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) a global health emergency, UNICEF had rushed six metric tons of medical supplies to the front lines. To date, UNICEF has delivered tens of millions of protective items for health workers, medical equipment and hygiene supplies. Now, 40 million health care and frontline workers won’t have to risk their lives to save lives.(...)". Read more .

If you want to help UNICEF, you can make a donation through their website . For more information, visit unicefusa.org.
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