8-24-09

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. – Dr. Sandra Kingery, professor of Spanish at Lycoming College, has been awarded one of 16 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowships for Translation Projects. Her $12,500 award will be used to support the translation of Esther Tusquets' memoir “We Won the War” from Spanish to English.

According to Kingery, “We Won the War” was published to great acclaim in Spain in 2007 and covers nearly two decades (1939-56) of the country’s early post-Civil War years. It offers insight into Tusquets' personal history and tracks the evolution of her social and political views as she turns away from her family's pro-dictatorial stance and joins the fight for individual freedom and democracy. Kingery says Tusquets is one of Spain's greatest living writers. She is the author of three memoirs, as well as six novels and two short story collections. Tusquets wrote her first novel, “The Same Sea as Every Summer,” in 1978 at age 42. In 2000, she retired from directorship of Editorial Lumen, a prominent publishing house in Barcelona.

Kingery earned a bachelor’s degree from Lawrence University and a doctorate in Spanish literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her previous translations include a novel and short stories by Ana María Moix, a novel by René Vázquez Díaz, and short stories by Julio Cortázar, which are forthcoming in “The Jazz Fiction Anthology,” edited by Lycoming Professor Sascha Feinstein and Professor Emeritus David Rife. In 2008, Kingery participated in a three-week residency at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre in Alberta, Canada. 

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