Congratulations to Nicky Smalley, who has received a PEN Translates award for her translation of Purity by Andrzej Tichý, forthcoming from And Other Stories.

Purity was a finalist for the 2021 Nordic Council Literature Prize. Anna Aslanyan writes in the Guardian:

‘The polyphony of voices is tightly interwoven . . . arranged into a narrative resembling a complex musical composition . . . The book ends abruptly, as an avant-garde piece of music might, but the vibrations continue to fill the air.’⁠

For full details of this year’s awards, see here.