Kate Briggs tutor at the master programme Fine Art wins prestigious Windham-Campbell prize.
One of the world’s richest literary awards, the Windham-Campbell prizes give an unrestricted grant of $165,000 to eight writers each year, celebrating “extraordinary literary achievement” by allowing them to “focus on their work independent of financial concerns”.
‘Kate Briggs is a writer and translator whose brilliant first book This Little Art (2017) defies categorisation. It is at once a memoir, a treatise, and a history, considering Briggs’s own life as a translator from French to English, offering an account of the nature and stakes of translation, and presenting a history of three women translators in the twentieth century. The book articulates and refracts the many strangenesses and paradoxes of translation as a practice and an art. Translation, Briggs shows us, is both lonely and collaborative, disciplined and profoundly educational, a private devotion and a public project. It energises and frustrates, requiring from its practitioners passion, precision, and an openness to transformation. Briggs is the translator of two volumes of Roland Barthes’s lecture notes at the Collège de France, The Preparation for the Novel (2011) and How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces (2013), and co-translator of Michel Foucault’s Introduction to Kant’s Anthropology (2008). She teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, Netherlands and is currently working on a new book: a novel-essay titled The Long Form.’
Source: https://windhamcampbell.org/festival/2021/recipients/briggs-kate, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/22/kate-briggs-renee-gladman-windham-campbell-prizes?fbclid=IwAR2VmZWNu2GO008myLpSgifelmR2hyQs48tJlHS-VMUe44APic6-epQCbDk
