Celia Hawkesworth

Celia Hawkesworth
Celia Hawkesworth
Occupation	Academic, translator
Language	English
Nationality	British
Education	University of Cambridge
Notable works	Belladonna by Daša Drndić
Notable awards	2018 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation; 2019 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

Last updated February 03, 2024

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, Hawkesworth 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]

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References

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↑ "Interview: Celia Hawkesworth". Lydia Perovic. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
↑ Hawkesworth, Celia (1999). "A Serbian Woman in a Turkish Harem: The Work of Jelena Dimitrijević (1862-1945)". The Slavonic and East European Review. 77 (1): 56–73. ISSN 0037-6795. JSTOR 4212795.
↑ "Celia Hawkesworth - The Mill". Vimeo. 22 June 2010.
↑ Hawkesworth, Celia (14 August 2015). Colloquial Croatian (in Croatian). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-30670-2.
↑ Hawkesworth, Celia (1 December 2000). Ivo Andric: Bridge Between East and West. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-84714-089-0.
↑ Hawkesworth, Celia (2007). Zagreb: A Cultural and Literary History. Signal Books. ISBN 978-1-904955-30-6.
↑ "Trustees". British Scholarship Trust. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
↑ "English PEN Names a New Round of 'PEN Translates' Award Grants". Publishing Perspectives. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
↑ "PEN Translates award winners from 15 countries revealed". The Bookseller. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
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↑ "Belladonna". European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
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↑ Andric, Ivo (30 October 2018). Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan. New York Review of Books. ISBN 978-1-68137-253-2.
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[1] "THE TRANSLATOR'S (INTER)VIEW. CELIA HAWKESWORTH ON SINGER IN THE NIGHT (ISTROS BOOKS)". Inpress Books. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

[2] "Interview: Celia Hawkesworth". Lydia Perovic. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

[3] Hawkesworth, Celia (1999). "A Serbian Woman in a Turkish Harem: The Work of Jelena Dimitrijević (1862-1945)". The Slavonic and East European Review. 77 (1): 56–73. ISSN 0037-6795. JSTOR 4212795.

[4] "Celia Hawkesworth - The Mill". Vimeo. 22 June 2010.

[5] Hawkesworth, Celia (14 August 2015). Colloquial Croatian (in Croatian). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-30670-2.

[6] Hawkesworth, Celia (1 December 2000). Ivo Andric: Bridge Between East and West. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-84714-089-0.

[7] Hawkesworth, Celia (2007). Zagreb: A Cultural and Literary History. Signal Books. ISBN 978-1-904955-30-6.

[8] "Trustees". British Scholarship Trust. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

[9] "English PEN Names a New Round of 'PEN Translates' Award Grants". Publishing Perspectives. 8 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.

[10] "PEN Translates award winners from 15 countries revealed". The Bookseller. Retrieved 12 September 2022.

[11] "Translators & Partners". Istros Books. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

[12] "Translators & Partners". Istros Books. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

[13] "Celia Hawkesworth". Granta Magazine. Retrieved 4 April 2021.

[14] "Belladonna". European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Retrieved 4 April 2021.

[15] "Belladonna announced as winner of 2018 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation". Warwick. Retrieved 4 April 2021.

[16] Andric, Ivo (30 October 2018). Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan. New York Review of Books. ISBN 978-1-68137-253-2.

[17] "Republic of Consciousness 2019 Prize Winners". Republic Of Consciousness. Retrieved 4 April 2021.

[18] "Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize". University of Oxford. Retrieved 4 April 2021.

[19] "Book Prize Winners for 2020" . Retrieved 3 April 2021.

[20] "And the Winners of the 2020 Best Translated Book Awards Are…". The Millions. 29 May 2020. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

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