Dolors Udina awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Generalitat

Professor Dolors Udina's work in the field of literary translation was recognised with the awarding of the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Government of Catalonia. Professor Udina is member of the UAB Faculty of Translation and Interpreting. Thirty more individuals and 24 entities also received the award.

18/07/2018

Dolors Udina, professor of the Department of Translation and Interpreting and East Asian Studies at the UAB, was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi "for her intense work as a literary translator, especially from English into Catalan". The Government of Catalonia highlights that among her translations, there are the "works of two Nobel Laureates, J. M. Coetzee and Alice Munro, and also Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf, which won her the 2014 Serra d'Or Prize in the category of Critical Translations". This year, thirty people will be awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi, one of the maximum distinctions awarded by the Government of Catalonia. The awards ceremony will take place on 23 July in Barcelona, at the Palau de la Música Catalana.

Udina holds a BA in Modern and Contemporary History. She has organised several literary translation workshops at the Libraries of Barcelona and is member of the board of editors of the journal Quaderns since 2005. She is member of the Jordi Arbonès Chair since its founding in 2003 and of the Study Group on Contemporary Catalan Translation. At the Translation and Interpreting Seminars, she gave conferences on Jordi Arbonès and translations in exile. In 2010 she also presented the seminars dedicated to Joan Sales. Her lines of research focus on the study and practice of English into Catalan translations dating from 1939 to 2000. This year she also has been awarded a distinction in the category of Catalan translations of the Ciutat de Barcelona Awards, for her adaptation into Catalan of Aldous Huxley's novel The Devils of Loudun (Adesiara).

Among the 24 entities receiving the Creu de Sant Jordi this year, are the foundation Proactiva Open Arms, awarded "for their work in rescuing and saving refugees lost in the Aegean Sea and in other parts of the Mediterranean". Òscar Camps, founder and director of this NGO, will offer the inaugural speech at the opening of the 2018/19 academic year, which will take place on 6 September at the central gardens of the Sant Pau Modernist Complex, Barcelona. The event will form part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the UAB and for this reason will take place in the first site of the UAB's Faculty of Medicine.