John Cox, a translator and university professor from Fargo in North Dakota, is the winner of the Serbian PEN Centre Award for the best translator of Serbian literature in 2021.
“John Cox has been singled out among other translators for his dedicated and persistent work over the last 15 years translating the works of contemporary Serbian writers of several generations”, says the Board of Directors of the PEN Centre.
Cox works with literary translation and has so far translated works by Ivo Andrić, Meša Selimović, Branko Ćopić, Danilo Kiš, Biljana Jovanović, Judita Šalgo, Goran Petrović and a number of other authors into English.
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