For her translation of Cynthia Ozick’s The Puttermesser Papers.
Awardee Database
Awardees
Luigi Sperti
Research on architectural decoration in the early Venetian Renaissance, conducted in the Italian Architectural Drawings and Photographic Collection at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.
Heidi Durrow
Archival research and interviews for a collection of short stories about early 19th-century interracial relations between Danes, black Africans and African-Americans. While in Denmark, she read from her work at the Tell-Tale Café in Copenhagen. Durrow’s research evolved into a novel, entitled The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (2010), which won the Bellweather Prize for Fiction and became a New York Times Bestseller, an LA Times Bestseller and an Indie Next Pick. See: www.heidiwdurrow.com.
Celia Kujala
Project on the effect of education on health
Carrie Schneider
Photographic project entitled “Hot vs Cold: Embodying the Finnish Landscape.” At the time, Schneider was at the Art Institute of Chicago. Her project “Elaborate Flirtations” was exhibited at Helsinki’s Galleria FAFA and reviewed by Scandinavia’s largest daily paper. While in Helsinki, Schneider presented a gallery talk and two screenings and produced a catalog featuring an interview with Helsinki artist Salla Tykkä. A solo exhibit was scheduled for January 2009 at the Finnish Museum of Tykkä and Museum of Photography.
Bethany Edmunds
Studies in Visual Culture at New York University, focusing on costume studies and textile conversation, culminating in a Master’s degree. After her return to Auckland in 2010, she developed an exhibition of works drawing on her US experience and toured the North Island to visit weavers and their communities.
Jeff Lugowe
Project on the assimilation of Polish migrants into Norwegian society. Lugowe has a BA from Brown University.
Adnan Haydar & Michael Beard
Joint award, with Adnan Haydar, for their moving translation of Mihyar of Damascus: His Songs, by the Syrian poet Adonis. Beard is at the University of North Dakota.
Michael Berry & Susan Chan Egan
For their translation of Wang Anyi’s Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai. Berry is at UC Santa Barbara.
Georgina White
Studies on traditional New Zealand woven cloaks at New York University, culminating in a Master’s degree in Museum Studies focusing on cultural heritage. After earning her MA, White returned to New Zealand to work as an Exhibition Developer at the Auckland Museum.
Anne Bersagel
Project on Norway’s efforts to enlist NGOs in public and cultural diplomacy
Amelia Bidwell
Project on local community and politics in medieval Scandinavia, part of the Transformation Project at the University of Oslo’s Centre for Viking and Medieval Studies. Bidwell graduated from Smith College in 2003.
Ben Steele
Studies on indigenous rights and treaty issues, leading to a Master’s degree in anthropology at Columbia University. Steele then became Second Secretary in New Zealand’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations.
Liesl Yamaguchi
Project on female Finnish political leaders. At the time, Yamaguchi was a graduate student at Columbia University.
Marc Amfreville
For the translation of Monique Truong’s The Book of Salt (Houghton-Mifflin 2003).
Amos Jones
Project on the Australian experience of constitutionalism and its US links, conducted at Melbourne University’s School of Law. Jones is a Columbia University and Harvard Law School graduate.
Mille Guldbeck
Project: to create 40 landscape-inspired diptychs inspired by the desolate landscapes of the island of Møn. While in Denmark, painter Guldbeck exhibited her work in a group show with some of Denmark’s contemporary artists; in 2007-08, the show traveled to her home campus of Bowling Green State University.
Katherine Wilson
Materials study of wood and other materials at the Helsinki University of Technology. At the time a graduate student at the University of Virginia, Wilson also designed and built a chair while in Helsinki.
Cammy Brothers
Research on Giuliano da Sangallo and the ruins of Rome, conducted in the Italian Architectural Drawings and Photographic Collection at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. The time required for this project was facilitated for Professor Brothers, of the University of Virginia, by a residence at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington.
Antoine Cazé
For his translations of A Box of Matches and The Size of Thoughts, both by Nicholson Baker.
*The Prix Coindreau Prize, The Jeanne Varnay Pleasants Prize for Language Teaching, and the CASVA-Henry & Judith Millon Award are currently inactive.