Andrea Rosenberg, our Spring ‘22 Translator in Residence and MFALT alum, was selected as the runner-up for the 2021 Queen Sofia Prize, for her translation of Mexican author Aura Xilonen’s The Gringo Champion published by Europa Editions. Andrea will be in Iowa City during the five weeks immediately following Spring Break.

Aron Aji, a literary translator and professor at the University of Iowa, runs a Facebook group called Literary Translation with more than 4,300 members from 99 countries. For the most part, the group is an active, amiable one in which linguaphiles help one another with translator minutia. But events last month sent the Facebook group — and the little-known, underappreciated world of literary translation — into commotion, resulting in heated exchanges about issues of race and equity in the business.