SdBS Featured Translation 2024 (any language to French)

Deadline: March 15, 2024

Prize: Republication of the translated article, accessible to wider
audiences

Consistent with its mission of promoting international and cross-cultural
exchange, Simone de Beauvoir Studies selects annually one outstanding work
that has already been published and translates it into either English or
French to emphasize its significance to the field and increase its
readership. The SdBS Featured Translation showcases writing of the highest
quality, often authored by established scholars, full professors, or others
who have produced exceptional work.

Nomination Letter

Nominations for the SdBS Featured Translation should take the form of a
letter of approximately one page in length that includes the following
information:

   1.

   The original publication details of the work (title, publisher,
   publication date, pages).
   2.

   The estimated word count of the work: 8,000 words maximum, including
   footnotes—all mentioned work should be referenced in footnotes (see Authors’
   Guide
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   ).
   3.

   A summary or abstract (100-200 words) of the work that emphasizes its
   central arguments and contributions.
   4.

   A short narrative that explains why the proposed work should be chosen
   for the SdBS Featured Translation and that references the selection
   criteria outlined below. (Please keep in mind that many exceptional
   works are nominated each year. Letters should speak to why a given work
   should be selected over other exceptional works.)
   5.

   A PDF copy of the original publication attached to the nomination
   letter.


Nomination letters should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief at
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the same work, multi-authored nomination letters, and self-nominations are
welcome.

Criteria

The SdBS Featured Translation is selected according to the following
criteria:

   -

   the quality of the work in regard to research, scholarship, and writing
   -

   he originality of the work in regard to content, scholarship, and
   arguments
   -

   the significance of the work’s contribution to Beauvoir studies or to
   the advancement of themes in conversation with Beauvoir’s legacy such as
   gender studies, cultural studies, existentialism, feminism, autobiography,
   and so on.
   -

   the work’s potential to draw new and diverse audiences to Beauvoir
   studies in terms of field, discipline, social location, cultural location,
   geographical region, and so on
   -

   the status of the work as under-recognized in certain disciplines,
   fields, cultures, and/or geographical areas


Eligibility

Eligible works for the 2024 nomination cycle are any article or book
chapter (ideally less than 10,000 words) that was published recently or
long ago in any language other than French.


   -

   SdBS Featured Translation 2025: Destination Language: English. Eligible
   works are those originally published in any language other than English.
   -

   SdBS Featured Translation 2026: Destination Language: French. Eligible
   works are those originally published in any language other than French.


Featured Translation Honorees

2023 TBA, SdBS 34.1

2022 Nancy Bauer, “Je suis une femme, de là je pense: Le Deuxième Sexe et
les Méditations”, (SdBS 33.1)

2021 Sylvie Chaperon, “Outcry over The Second Sex” (SdBS 32.1)

2020 Margaret A. Simons, “Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir et Le Deuxième
Sexe” (SdBS 31.1)

2019 Emmanuel de Saint Aubert “The Blood of Others: Maurice Merleau-Ponty
and Simone de Beauvoir (SdBS 30.1 and 30.2)



Claudia Bouliane, Ph.D.
Rédactrice en chef / Editor- in-chief
*Simone de Beauvoir Studies*

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