Applicants for the Nora Gal Prize became known

MOSCOW. Finalists of the fifth season of the Nora Gal Award announced.

Eleanor Yakovlevna Halperina is familiar to a wide audience under the pseudonym Nora Gal. Doubtful, from the point of view of the new government, origin - from the intelligentsia - turned out to be a barely overcome obstacle to higher education. Miraculously, he managed to finish the philology department of the Pedagogical Institute in 1937 and defend a dissertation on Rambo there. Indeed, by that time, her father, a wonderful doctor, had been repressed, tortured, and sent to the Gulag for a long 12 years.

Thanks to her tremendous sense of language, which made it possible to choose the best, most appropriate translation option, readers discovered many books written in English and French. “To Kill a Mockingbird”, “The Little Prince”, “American Tragedy”, books by Bradbury, Louis Aragon, Andre Morois, Poe, London, Clark “spoke” in Russian and fell in love thanks to her brilliant translations.

In the year of the centenary of Eleanor Yakovlevna, her daughter Edward Kuzmina and grandson Dmitry founded the award for her memory. It is awarded for the best translation from English of a small prose work written in the XX or XXI century. The 2016 shortlist includes translations of Alexey Kruglov, Elena Kalyavina, Alexey Osipov, Anna Blaise, Tatyana Borovikova, Maria Sedova, Maria Galina, Leonid Motylev. The jury is to evaluate their interpretations of Woodhouse, Gaiman, Miller, Macarlane, Hughes, O’Connor, Nobel laureate Alice Munroe.

About which of the translations will be preferred, it will become known at the end of April.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru