Announcing the winners of the 2014 Read Russia Prize

Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Read Russia Prize, celebrating the best translations and translators of Russian literature into foreign languages:

Alejandro Ariel Gonzales for his Spanish-language translation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella The Double – the best translation of “classic 19th-century Russian literature”

Alexander Nitzberg for his German-language translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's novel Master and Margarita – the best translation of “20th-century Russian literature”

Marian Schwartz for her English-language translation of Leonid Yuzefovich's Harlequin's Costume – the best translation of “contemporary Russian literature”

Liu Wenfei for his Chinese-language translation of lyrical works by Alexander Pushkin – the best translation of “poetry”

Congratulations!