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).

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 [log in to unmask] by March 15, 2024. Multiple nomination letters for 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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