Award for Dolors Udina's translation of Huxley's "The Devils of Loudun"

02/02/2018

Dolors Udina, professor of the Department of Translation and Interpreting and of East Asian Studies at the UAB, will receive this year's City of Barcelona Award for the best translation into Catalan. Professor Udina receives the prize for her adaptation into Catalan of the novel The Devils of Loudun (Adesiara) by Aldous Huxley. The jury highlighted the fact that Professor Udina "brilliantly overcame the challenge of transferring into vivid and precise Catalan a novel of enormous complexity and unquestionable cultural importance". The City of Barcelona Awards will be held on 16 February at the Barcelona City Hall's Saló de Cent.

Professor Udina holds a degree in Modern and Contemporary History. She has directed several literary translation workshops in different Barcelona libraries and since 2005 she is member of the editorial council of the translation journal Quaderns. She forms part of the Jordi Arbonès Chair since its creation in 2003 and of the Study Group on Contemporary Catalan Translation. At several International Days of Translation and Interpreting, held yearly, she has given conferences on Jordi Arbonès and translation in exile. She also presented the 2010 edition, dedicated to Joan Sales. Her lines of research are the study and practice of translation from English into Catalan from 1939 to 2000.