Jon Cho-Polizzi Wins the Society of Author’s Schlegel-Tieck Prize

The Society of Authors announced last week that Jon Cho-Polizzi won The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translations into English of full length German works of literary merit and general interest.

Judge Kerri Andrews said:
‘Djinns, dexterously translated by Jon-Cho Polizzi, compels its reader to confront the possibility that we exist in a world of multiple truths, all of which are contingent and contestable. The story is superficially simple, the execution dazzling in its sophistication. Cho-Polizzi’s superb yet playful handling of the novel’s polyphony was one of the reasons why this had to be this year’s winner.’

Huge congratulations to Jon Cho-Polizzi and thank you to the Society of Authors.