{"id":51022,"date":"2025-10-02T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/51022\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T10:27:10","slug":"halyna-herasym-won-the-translated-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/51022\/","title":{"rendered":"Halyna Herasym won the Translated Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                            Ukrainian political scientist Halyna Herasym has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ChovenUA\/posts\/pfbid02PNWTFKToocaYpQyCAcmCoZhrDNcBiafXcxTUWtZ5tMy5xtVMb5Lxc7MPv7T9wZmPl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won<\/a> the Translated Book Award from the Peterson Literary Fund for her translation of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Freedom-Timothy-Snyder\/dp\/0593728726\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On Freedom<\/a>,\u201d written by US historian Timothy Snyder and released by Crown Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was named the award winner, but the entire publishing house\u2019s effort made it possible. Without their flawless layout, patience, helpful advice, and gentle encouragement Snyder wouldn\u2019t exist in Ukrainian. I especially want to thank the editors for their often unseen work, which makes our job as translators much easier. If you\u2019d like to congratulate us all, please consider donating to support Khartia,\u201d Herasym wrote on her Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian translation of \u201cOn Freedom\u201d was published in 2024 by Choven Publishing House.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA brilliant exploration of freedom \u2014 what it is, how it\u2019s been misunderstood, and why it\u2019s our only chance for survival \u2014 by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny,\u201d reads the book\u2019s annotation on many prominent websites, including Goodreads.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The award ceremony will take place on Nov. 29 in Toronto, Canada. Timothy Snyder expects to attend the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Peterson Literary Fund Translated Book Award is presented biennially. The award recognizes the best recently published books in translation, both nonfiction and fiction. The award is given to books translated either into or from Ukrainian.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Award aspires to honor excellence in the collaboration of translators, editors, and publishers, and to encourage support for quality literature relevant to the global Ukrainian community and representative of the diverse Ukrainian experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each Translated Book Award provides $10,000 CAD, shared equally between the author and the translator. In the case of anthologies with multiple contributors, the author\u2019s portion will go to the editor(s).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/chytomo.com\/en\/tamara-gorikha-zernia-and-victoria-amelina-shortlisted-for-prestigious-hotlist-2025-literary-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tamara Gorikha Zernia and Victoria Amelina shortlisted for prestigious Hotlist 2025 literary award<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Copy editing: Terra Friedman King<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian political scientist Halyna Herasym has won the Translated Book Award from the Peterson Literary Fund for her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[412,146,85,46],"class_list":["post-51022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}