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12-14-12, 04:01 PM
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American-born Lisbon resident translator and academic Richard Zenith has picked up this year’s Pessoa Prize, with a cheque for €60,000.
Culture What's New — 14 December 2012 by Lusa News
The American-born Lisbon resident translator and academic Richard Zenith has picked up this year’s Pessoa Prize, jury President Francisco Pinto Balsemão announced Friday.
Richard Zenith has become “a citizen of Portugal out of his dedication and commitment to his work, to Fernando Pessoa, to literature, our own, and to a language, Portuguese,” said Pinto Balsemão at Friday’s award announcement ceremony.
Furthermore, Zenith was praised for his research and translations of Fernando Pessoa and applying “the knowledge accumulated over the course of decades to the disciplined and methodological study of a passion.”
Richard Zenith graduated from the University of Virginia and lived in Colombia, Brazil and France before arriving in Lisbon in 1987 where he has since freelanced as a writer, translator, researcher and critic.
In addition to translating many of the works of Pessoa, Zenith is also responsible for English versions of works by authors including Sofia de Mello Breyner, António Lobo Antunes, Nuno Júdice and Antero de Quental.
The Pessoa Prize, with a cheque for €60,000, is awarded annually to a person of Portuguese nationality who has made a particularly significant and innovative contribution to Portugal’s artistic, literary or scientific life.
American-born Lisbon resident translator and academic Richard Zenith has picked up this year’s Pessoa Prize, with a cheque for €60,000.
Culture What's New — 14 December 2012 by Lusa News
The American-born Lisbon resident translator and academic Richard Zenith has picked up this year’s Pessoa Prize, jury President Francisco Pinto Balsemão announced Friday.
Richard Zenith has become “a citizen of Portugal out of his dedication and commitment to his work, to Fernando Pessoa, to literature, our own, and to a language, Portuguese,” said Pinto Balsemão at Friday’s award announcement ceremony.
Furthermore, Zenith was praised for his research and translations of Fernando Pessoa and applying “the knowledge accumulated over the course of decades to the disciplined and methodological study of a passion.”
Richard Zenith graduated from the University of Virginia and lived in Colombia, Brazil and France before arriving in Lisbon in 1987 where he has since freelanced as a writer, translator, researcher and critic.
In addition to translating many of the works of Pessoa, Zenith is also responsible for English versions of works by authors including Sofia de Mello Breyner, António Lobo Antunes, Nuno Júdice and Antero de Quental.
The Pessoa Prize, with a cheque for €60,000, is awarded annually to a person of Portuguese nationality who has made a particularly significant and innovative contribution to Portugal’s artistic, literary or scientific life.