For her translation of For the Time Being, by Annie Dillard.
Awardee Database
Awardees
Salvatore Settis
Project on redefining Italian policy and legislation for managing Italy’s cultural heritage.
Mytoan Nguyen
Project on immigration policy and Vietnamese refugee communities in Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne. At the time, Nguyen was at UC Berkeley.
RIck Anthony Furtak
Project on the stoicism of Kierkegaard, in preparation for a book entitled Truth, Love and Falsity: A Kierkegaardian Response to Stoicism. At the time, Furtak was at the University of Chicago.
Yuni Kim
Project on Swedish dialects in Finland, which is spoken by 6% of the population. At the time, Kim was at Harvard university.
Joshua Meltzer
Project on Finland’s role in multilateral diplomacy. At the time, Metzger was at Southern Cal.
Claudia Berguson
Project on the narrative authority of the author Sigrid Undset. At the time, Berguson was at the University of Washington.
Julianne K. Ohlander
Project re-assessing myths about suicide in Sweden.
Mara Fridell
Project on the interplay of immigration, politics and state capacity. At the time, Fridell was at the University of Oregon.
Georgia Hubert
In recognition of her excellence in carrying out the merging of the US Information Service into the State Department her USIA-State merger and training State officers to take over the simple grant-making activities formerly carried out by USIA.
Anna Rudberg
Project on the response of theology and religion to recent social change. At the time, geographer Rudberg was at Dartmouth College.
Alexandra Zafiroglu
Project on the shift in the daily experience of time and space brought about by the use of mobile phones. At the time, Zafiroglu was at Brown University.
Baron Kelly
Project on the thirty-year Scandinavian career of Earle Hyman, distinguished black American actor who learned Norwegian, Swedish and Danish and performed the classical repertory, from Ibsen to Strindberg and Shakespeare to O’Neill, before his American career began. At the time, Kelly was in the Theater Department at the University of Wisconsin.
Tomas Matza
Project on the challenge to Finnish national identity posed by globalization. At the time, Matza, a recent Princeton University graduate, was developing a career as a journalist.
Maile Chapman
Project: a historically-based novel weaving threads from medicine and public heath, institutional architecture and women’s healthcare. At the time, Chapman was at Syracuse University.
Dick Davis
Jointly awarded, with Afkham Darband, for their translation of Farid-Ud-Din Attar’s classic text, The Conference of the Birds.
Afkham Darband
Jointly awarded, with Dick Davis, for their translation of Farid-Ud-Din Attar’s classic text, The Conference of the Birds.
Françoise Cartano
For the translation of Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, by Steven Millhauser.
Nili Kaplan‐Myrth
Project on the prevention of blindness in aboriginal communities. At the time, Kaplan-Myrth was at Yale University.
Sabra Thorner
Project on the social impact of Australia’s Aboriginal Cultural Centers. At the time, Thorner was at Georgetown University.
Elio Brancaforte
Project on maps of the Baroque period held in Danish libraries and archives
*The Prix Coindreau Prize, The Jeanne Varnay Pleasants Prize for Language Teaching, and the CASVA-Henry & Judith Millon Award are currently inactive.