{"id":616,"date":"2017-03-20T16:12:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T16:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?p=616"},"modified":"2017-11-17T16:18:49","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T16:18:49","slug":"616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/accolades\/616\/","title":{"rendered":"Youna Kwak wins French Voices Grand Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/youna-kwak\/\">Youna Kwak<\/a>, the brilliant translator of <a href=\"authors\/413\">V\u00e9ronique Bizot<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/gardeners\/\"><em>Gardeners<\/em><\/a>, due out from Di\u00e1logos this June, has won this year&#8217;s Grand Prize in translation from the FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) Foundation in the US, for her sample translation of <em>Daewoo<\/em> by Fran\u00e7ois Bon (Fayard, 2004). Look for publication from Di\u00e1logos in 2019. This will be the first full-length work by Bon, who is highly regarded in France, translated into English.<\/p>\n<p><em> &#8220;Daewoo<\/em> is an evocative and powerful novel based on documentary research and interviews with former employees of the Korean corporation. It focuses on the stories of four women and on the haunting absence of a fifth one, Sylvia, who committed suicide after the plant closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reader is moved and devastated by this exploration of those who have fought to the point of losing connection with life, or even life itself, for one of them.\u201d<br \/>\n <em>\u2014Le Matricule des anges<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youna Kwak, the brilliant translator of V\u00e9ronique Bizot&#8216;s Gardeners, due out from Di\u00e1logos this June, has won this year&#8217;s Grand Prize in translation from the FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) Foundation in the US, for her sample translation of Daewoo by Fran\u00e7ois Bon (Fayard, 2004). Look for publication from Di\u00e1logos in 2019. 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