The 2024 Society of Authors TA First Translation Prize winner: Deanna Cachoian-Schanz and editor Tatiana Ryckman for a translation from Eastern Armenian of A Book, Untitled by Shushan Avagyan (Tilted Axis Press)
"Deanna Cachoian-Schanz’s translation of Shushan Avagyan’s A Book, Untitled is none other than a feat and a triumph. Its scope and ambition both as a novel and translation are unrivalled. A Book, Untitled’s rich, manifold facets and layers make it a work that begs to be read again and again; it indeed deserves to be studied at university translation programmes across the world. Deanna Cachoian-Schanz has brought Shushan Avagyan’s extraordinary accomplishment into English with such love, attention and finesse, there could not be a more deserving winner." —Award Judges
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