The YTI heartily congratulates Yale translation alumn Gwen Harper (’15) on receiving the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Translation

New York, NY (March 20, 2025)—Tonight at the New School, the National Book Critics Circle announced the recipients of its book awards for publishing year 2024, and marked the 50th year the NBCC Awards have been bestowed. As NBCC President Heather Scott Partington declared, “Never has there been a more urgent need for criticism, for free speech, for writing that questions, talks back to, and interprets other writing…. The NBCC affirms the right of every person to see themselves reflected in books. As the NBCC moves into our next chapter, we stand with the organizations fighting to protect our rights to write and read.” 

The Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize, which honors both the author and translator, went to Gwendolyn Harper’s translation from the Spanish of A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel. As committee chair Mandana Chaffa remarked, “This thrilling collection of essays—or crónicas—by the late Chilean literary activist and queer icon Pedro Lemebel…is beautifully supported by Gwendolyn Harper’s supple translation.”

Read the full article here on the Book Critics site.