new award
translation award for Nenaste in French
A good news from last year 2023 is the TRANSLATION AWARD Inalco/Vo-Vf 2023 for Raphaëlle Pache. She has translated Aleksei Ivanov’s thrilling social drama NENASTE – LE DERNIER AFGHAN into French language, published in 2021 already by éditions Rivages/Noir.
The novel uses a thriller plot to describe the developement of Russian society from the 90ies into the early 2010s. Ex-Afghanistan combats form a first mafia group that still obeys rules of comradeship and „honesty“ and brings kind of stability to a provincial town. But slowly they are pushed aside by other mendacious and „dishonest“ guys who are seeking their private financial profit only. A late revenge of one of the old „honest“ guys brings the situation to escalation.