Janina Kos picks up French Institute translation prize

The French Institute in Slovenia has presented its Charles Nodier Award to Janina Kos for her translation into Slovenian of The Anomaly by Herve Le Tellier. The winner was announced by the French Ambassador Florence Levy at a ceremony in Ljubljana's Cankarjev Dom on 21 April.

The judging panel said that the translation is faithful in style and content to the French original and simultaneously sturdy and precise in Slovenian.

Kos gave Slovenian readers a book that will amaze and confuse them just as the original text amazed and confused French readers, the judging...