Wes Press Books Garner Recognition, Awards

Wesleyan University Press publications have received awards and accolades this summer.

Three Science Fiction Novellas, translated from the French by Danièle Chatelain and George Slusser, was named a 2013 Science Fiction and Fantasy Translation Award finalist. The SF&F Translation Awards “reward the translation of science fiction, fantasy, and related fiction from other languages into English. They exist both to promote the fiction of non-English-speaking authors and to highlight the valuable work done by translators.”

The Connecticut League of History Organizations awarded Ella Grasso: Connecticut’s Pioneering Governor by Jon Purmont with a  2013 Award of Merit.

We Modern People: Science Fiction and the Making of Russian Modernity by Anindita Banerjee was recognized as “an erudite and thoughtful study of Soviet science fiction” by Sciencemag.org.

In addition, Pura Lopez-Colomé’s and translator Forrest Gander read poems on KCRW radio from the bilingual addition of Watchword, while reflecting on poetry and translation, intuition and abstraction, and metaphor and illness.