Congratulations to Jane and Marshall Brown for winning the the Scaglione Prize from the MLA. This prestigious award goes out every other year to the best translation of a scholarly study of literature. This year's prize is for their translation of Tempus by Harald Weinrich.
Jane Brown, Professor Emerita of German Studies, is one of the most well-respected scholars of Goethe in the world. You can read more about her impressive research here. Marshall Brown is Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature and longtime affiliate of German Studies at UW.
The committee’s citation for the translation reads: "Jane K. Brown and Marshall Brown’s translation of Harald Weinrich’s Tempus: The World of Discussion and the World of Narration is the truly impressive product of a lengthy engagement with a thinker and his work. The task of creating this particular translation involved navigating a number of stylistic ranges, tackling texts written in various dialect forms of several languages, and handling translingual differences in tense and mood—challenges that Brown and Brown met with skill, confidence, and grace. Weinrich’s book combines literary criticism and comparative linguistic analysis to arrive at a larger conceptual categorization of the workings of narrative time across several languages and literary traditions; Brown and Brown’s translation adds another layer of critical engagement to the work."
You can read the full announcement from the MLA here.