ZAGREB, June 21 (Hina) - Croatian translator Sead Muhamedagic will be presented with the Austrian state award for best literary translation in 2001 in Klagenfurt, Austria, on June 23, the Austrian society of translators of works of
literature or science said on Friday.
ZAGREB, June 21 (Hina) - Croatian translator Sead Muhamedagic will
be presented with the Austrian state award for best literary
translation in 2001 in Klagenfurt, Austria, on June 23, the
Austrian society of translators of works of literature or science
said on Friday. #L#
A decision on the EUR7,300 award was made by art department of the
Austrian chancellor's office on May 26. The award is given to
Austrian translators of literature in German and translators of
Austrian literature in a foreign language.
Muhamedagic will receive the award as the translator of Austrian
literature in Croatian.
The second winner of the Austrian literary translation award is
Dieter Horning, who translated in German two of the most important
authors of the French modernism, Henri Michaux and Julien Gracq.
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