The FIT Prizes were awarded as part of the Statutory Congress this year, except for the Pierre-Fran\u00e7ois Caill\u00e9 Memorial Medal, which was awarded at the closing ceremony of the open congress. We thank all our member associations who made nominations, those who served as members of the various juries (all volunteers), the members of the FIT Prizes Task Force (Denis Louis Bousquet \u2013 chair, Beatriz Rodriguez, Benny Hoed and Irene Yuan), and Denis Bousquet and FIT executive director Jeannette \u00d8rsted for administering the whole process. The winners were:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Astrid Lindgren Prize for the Translation of Children’s Literature:<\/strong>\u00a0Ms Julia Lydia Calzadilla Nunez, nominated by the Cuban Association of Translators and Interpreters (ACTI)<\/p>\n \u2022 \u201cAurora Borealis\u201d Prize for Outstanding Translation of Fiction Literature:<\/strong> Prof. Xu Yuanchong, nominated by the Translators’ Association of China (TAC)<\/p>\n \u2022 \u201cAurora Borealis\u201d Prize for Outstanding Translation of Non-fiction Literature:<\/strong> Ms Metella Paterlini, nominated by the Italian Association of Translators and Interpreters (AITI)<\/p>\n \u2022 Karel \u010capek Medal for Translation from a Language of Limited Diffusion:<\/strong>\u00a0Ms Kari Kem\u00e9ny, nominated by the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators (NO)<\/p>\n \u2022 FIT Prize for Best Periodical:<\/strong>\u00a0ITI Bulletin published by the Institute of Translators and Interpreters in the UK, with an Honourable Mention going to the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario (ATIO) newsletter InformATIO<\/p>\n \u2022 FIT Prize for Best Website:<\/strong>\u00a0awarded jointly to www.iti.org.uk and www.universitas.org \u2013 the websites of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (UK) and Universitas (Austria)<\/p>\n \u2022 FIT Prize for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Translation (new in 2014):<\/strong>\u00a0Md Svetla Moutafova, nominated by the Bulgarian Translators’ Association<\/p>\n \u2022 FIT Prize for Interpreting Excellence (new in 2014):<\/strong>\u00a0Dorothy Charbonneau, nominated by the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario (ATIO)<\/p>\n \u2022 Pierre-Fran\u00e7ois Caill\u00e9 Memorial Medal for a contribution to the profession at an international level:<\/strong>\u00a0Bente Christensen, nominated by the Norwegian Association of Literary Translators (NO)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"