Celia Hawkesworth (born 1942) is an author, lecturer, and translator of Serbo-Croatian.

Biography

Celia Hawkesworth graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge in 1964 and was awarded a British Council scholarship to study in Belgrade for 10 months, where she began her career as a translator. ^[1] From 1971 to 2002, she was a senior lecturer of Serbian and Croatian in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London. ^{[2] [3]} Based in Kirtlington and an active part of the environmentalist movement, ^[4] she has translated over 40 books by Slavic authors into English, including The Culture of Lies by Dubravka Ugrešić, My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinović, EEG by Daša Drndić, and Omer Pasha Latas by Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić. She has also written several textbooks of colloquial Croatian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, an anthology of Serbian and Bosnian women writers, a cultural history of Zagreb, and a literary biography of Ivo Andrić. ^{[5] [6] [7]}

In 1975, she was appointed to as a trustee to the British Trust Scholarship and has served as both secretary and chairperson. ^[8]

Her translation of Daša Drndić's Canzone di Guerra ( Istros Books) and Senka Marić's Body Kintsugi (Peirene Press) were awarded a PEN Translates grant by English PEN. ^{[9] [10]}

Selected bibliography

Translator

• Andrić, Ivo (1992), Conversation with Goya, translated by Celia Hawkesworth; Andrew Harvey, London, UK: Menard with the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, ISBN  0903400774
• Andrić, Ivo (2007), The Damned Yard and Other Stories, Belgrade: Dereta, ISBN  978-8673465975
• Andrić, Ivo (2010), The Days of the Consuls, translated by Celia Hawkesworth; Bogdan Rakić, Belgrade: Dereta, ISBN  978-8673467740
• Andrić, Ivo (2016), Bosnian Chronicle, London: Head of Zeus, ISBN  9781784971120
• Andrić, Ivo (2018), Omer Pasha Latas, New York: New York Review of Books, ISBN  978-1681372525
• Arsenijevic, Vladimir (1996), In The Hold, Oakland, CA: Fodor's Travel, ISBN  0679446575
• Čolić, Velibor (2018), The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani, London: Pushkin Press, ISBN  978-1782274971
• Čolović, Ivan (2002), Politics Of Identity In Serbia, New York: New York University Press, ISBN  0814716253
• Drndić, Daša (2017), Leica Format, London: MacLehose Press, ISBN  978-1848665873
• Drndić, Daša (2017), Belladonna, London: MacLehose Press, ISBN  978-0857054319
• Drndić, Daša (2019), Doppelgänger, translated by Celia Hawkesworth; S.D. Curtis, New York: New Directions, ISBN  978-0811228916
• Drndić, Daša (2019), EEG, New York: New Directions, ISBN  978-0811228480
• Gotovac, Vlado (2002), Black Sails, Zagreb: Institut Vlado Gotovac, ISBN  9539904900
• Kurspahic, Nermina (2000), Hiatus: Under The Sign Of Sickness, In The Name Of Health, London: Society for the Furthrance of Critical Philosophy, ISBN  0953400921
• Lazarevska, Alma (2014), Death in the Museum of Modern Art: Six Stories, London: Istros Books, ISBN  978-1908236173
• Lengold, Jelena (2013), Fairground Magician, London: Istros Books, ISBN  978-1908236104
• Maksimović, Desanka (1988), I Seek Clemency, Belgrade: Association of Serbian Writers
• Marić, Senka (2022), Body Kintsugi, London: Peirene Press, ISBN  9781908670731
• Mehmedinović, Semezdin (2021), My Heart, New York: Catapult, ISBN  978-1646220076
• Novak, Slobodan (2007), Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh, Iowa City: Autumn Hill Books, ISBN  978-0975444467
• Rudan, Vedrana (2004), Night, Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN  1564783472
• Samokovlija, Isak (1997), Tales of Old Sarajevo, translated by Celia Hawkesworth; Christina Pribićević-Zorić, London: Vallentine Mitchell, ISBN  0853033323
• Savičević, Olja (2015), Farewell, Cowboy, London: Istros Books, ISBN  978-1908236487
• Savičević, Olja (2019), Singer in the Night, London: Istros Books, ISBN  978-1912545971
• Simić, Roman (2015), A Frame for the Family Lion: Stories, translated by Celia Hawkesworth; Tomislav Kuzmanović; Mima Simić, Zagreb: V.B.Z., ISBN  978-8679983596
• Sršen, Matko (2013), Odohohol and Cally Rascal, London: Istros Books, ISBN  978-1908236159
• Ugrešić, Dubravka (1992), In the Jaws of Life and Other Stories, translated by Celia Hawkesworth; Michael Henry Heim, London: Virago Press, ISBN  0810111004
• Ugrešić, Dubravka (1998), The Culture of Lies, Philadelphia: Penn State University Press, ISBN  027101847X
• Ugrešić, Dubravka (1999), The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, New York: New Directions, ISBN  0811214931
• Ugrešić, Dubravka (2003), Thank You For Not Reading: Essays on Literary Trivia, translated by Celia Hawkesworth; Damion Searls, Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN  1564782980
• Ugrešić, Dubravka (2009), Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, translated by Celia Hawkesworth; Ellen Elias-Bursać, Edinburgh: Canongate, ISBN  978-1847670663
• Ugrešić, Dubravka (2014), Karaoke Culture, translated by Celia Hawkesworth; Ellen Elias-Bursać; David Williams, University of Rochester: Open Letter Books, ISBN  978-1934824573
• Ugrešić, Dubravka (2018), American Fictionary, translated by Celia Hawkesworth; Ellen Elias-Bursać, University of Rochester: Open Letter Books, ISBN  978-1940953908
• Veličković, Nenad (2005), Lodgers, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, ISBN  0810122413
• Velmar-Janković, Svetlana (1996), Dungeon, Belgrade: Dereta, ISBN  8681283677
• Vrkljan, Irena (1999), The Silk, the Shears and Marina; or, About Biography, translated by Celia Hawkesworth; Sibelan Forrester, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, ISBN  0810116030
• Zanic, Ivo (2007), Flag on the Mountain: a political anthropology of the war in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina 1990-1995, translated by Celia Hawkesworth; Graham McMaster, London: The Bosnian Institute, ISBN  978-0863568152

Accolades

• 1998: Weidenfeld Prize for Literary Translation shortlist for The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugrešić ^[11]
• 1999: Heldt Prize for Culture of Lies by Dubravka Ugrešić ^[12]
• 2018: EBRD Literature Prize finalist for Belladonna by Daša Drndić ^{[13] [14]}
• 2018: Warwick Prize for Women in Translation winner for Belladonna by Daša Drndić ^[15]
• 2018: Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize shortlist for Belladonna by Daša Drndić ^[16]
• 2019: Republic of Consciousness Prize shortlist for Doppelgänger by Daša Drndić ^[17]
• 2019: Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize winner for Omer Pasha Latas by Ivo Andrić ^[18]
• 2020: American Association of Teachers for Slavic and Eastern European Languages' Best Literary Translation into English for EEG by Daša Drndić ^[19]
• 2020: Best Translated Book Award for EEG by Daša Drndić ^[20]

References