Rawley Grau - 05-2023 - by Joy Connelly
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Rawley Grau has translated numerous works from Slovenian, including novels by Dušan Šarotar, Mojca Kumerdej, Gabriela Babnik, and Sebastijan Pregelj. Five of his translations, including Pregelj’s A Chronicle of Forgetting, have been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and his translations of Šarotar’s Panorama and Billiards at the Hotel Dobray were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. In 2021, he received the Lavrin Diploma for excellence in translation from the Association of Slovenian Literary Translators. Originally from Baltimore, he has lived in Ljubljana since the early 2000s.

Rawley Grau has translated numerous works from Slovenian, including novels by Dušan Šarotar, Mojca Kumerdej, Gabriela Babnik, and Sebastijan Pregelj. Five of his translations, including Pregelj’s A Chronicle of Forgetting, have been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, and his translations of Šarotar’s Panorama and Billiards at the Hotel Dobray were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. In 2021, he received the Lavrin Diploma for excellence in translation from the Association of Slovenian Literary Translators. Originally from Baltimore, he has lived in Ljubljana since the early 2000s.

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