This year, the Austrian State Translation Award will be awarded to Slovenian translator Dr. Štefan Vevar and Vienna-based translator Alexandra Nitzberga. The Austrian State Translation Award is awarded for special achievements in the field of translation. It consists of an award for translations of Austrian literature into foreign languages and an award for translations of foreign literature into German. Dr. Štefan Vevar receives the award for translations of Austrian literature into Slovenian.
Translator and theatre scholar dr. Stefan Vevar, born in 1593, graduated in German and English studies in Ljubljana in 1978. He has been translating literary texts into Slovenian since 1982. In addition to German classics, he has translated numerous works of Austrian literature, including works by Adalbert Stifter, Robert Musil, Franz Kafka, Erich Fried, Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, Christoph Ransmayr and Maja Haderlap. In 1999, he received the Sovret Prize for the translation of the novel School years Wilhelm Meister JW Goethe. Since 1987 he has been employed at the Slovenian Theatre Museum, now the Slovenian Theatre Institute.
The award will be presented to him on June 28, 2020 at the House of Literature in Vienna.
