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Smee receives 2024 Medal for Excellence in Translation

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The Medal for Excellence in Translation is a major national award that recognises outstanding translation achievements and celebrates the vital role of translators and translation in Australian culture and scholarly discourse. The announcement marks United Nation’s International Translation Day, which pays tribute to the important work of language professionals. Stephanie Smee is a Sydney-based literary […]

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Four shortlisted for 2024 Medal for Excellence in Translation

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The Australian Academy of the Humanities is thrilled to announce shortlisted translators for the 2024 Medal for Excellence in Translation. The Medal for Excellence in Translation recognises outstanding achievement in translation and the vital role of translators and translation in Australian culture and scholarly discourse. Established in 2016, it is awarded biennially for a book-length

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Recipient of 2022 Medal for Excellence in Translation announced

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Robert Savage is a translator who teaches at Ivanhoe Grammar School in Melbourne. His translation of Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger’s monumental biography of eighteenth-century Habsburg empress, Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time, was released in 2022 and hailed in the Literary Review as “elegant” and “of page-turning readability”. Chair of the judging panel, Professor Brian

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2022 Medal for Excellence in Translation shortlist

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Robert Savage Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rillinger. Translated from German by Robert Savage. Princeton University Press, 2022. Robert Savage is a translator and high school teacher living in Melbourne. His translation of Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger’s monumental biography of eighteenth-century Habsburg empress, Maria Theresa, appeared in early 2022. When originally published in

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Announcing the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation

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Being Here is an account of the life of ground-breaking Expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker. Born in Germany in 1876, Modersohn-Becker was the first female artist to paint herself not only naked but pregnant. Darrieussecq describes Paula’s discovery of her style and choice of subjects—women, babies, domestic life. She tells the story of her fraught marriage

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.