September 6, 2018
Congratulations to our former graduate student, Allen Young (Berkeley PhD, 2012), who has been awarded the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation prize, for his translation of Losing is What Matters, by Manuel Pérez Subirina. The $10,000 prize is awarded for the best translation of a Spanish-language literary work into English.
After graduating from Berkeley, Allen taught at Northwestern University before pursing an additional degree in urban planning. He is currently working in Shanghai, China, as the managing editor of a bilingual cultural magazine, Neocha.