FIT Prizes 2022

​FIT Prizes 2022
Congratulations to all the winners of the FIT Prizes 2022. Thanks go to all our member associations who made nominations, those who served as volunteers on the many juries, the members of the FIT Awards Committee, consisting of the Chair Reina de Bettendorf, Sandra Bertolini, Eleanor Cornelius, and to all those winners who could not attend and sent in videos and representatives. ​

Special congratulations go to Honorary Advisor Frans de Laet, who was awarded the Pierre-François Caillé Medal in recognition of his dedicated service and tireless work in promoting the profession.

Prize winners for 2022 were:

Pierre-François Caillé Medal
Frans de Laet

Astrid Lindgren Prize
Carlos Mayor, APTIC, Associació Professional de Traductors i Intèrprets de Catalunya

Honourable Mention: Stian Omland, The Norwegian Association of Literary Translators

Aurora Borealis Prize for Outstanding Translation of Fiction Literature
Olga Sánchez Guevara, ACTI, Asociación Cubana de Traductores e Intérpretes

Aurora Borealis Prize for Outstanding Translation of Non-Fiction Literature
Leonardo Marcello Pignataro, AITI, Italian Association of Translators and Interpreters

Honourable Mention: Mateo Cardona Vallejo, ACTTI, Asociación Colombiana de Traductores, Terminólogos e Intérpretes

FIT Prize for Best Periodical 
InTouch, AUSIT, Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators

Honourable Mention: La Linterna del Traductor, ASETRAD, Asociación Española de Traductores, Correctores e Intérpretes

FIT Prize for Best Website
Atanet.org ATA, American Translators Association

FIT Prize for Interpreting Excellence
Georganne Weller, CMIC, Colegio Mexicano de Intérpretes de Conferencias

Karel Čapek Medal
Lars Kolbjørn Moa, Norwegian Association of Literary Translators

Honourable Mention: Jennifer Lazaric, Croatian Association of Scientific and Technical Translators

Marion Boers Prize for Translation of Work of Fiction or Non-Fiction by an Author from a SADC Member State
Alfred Mtawali, EIATA, East Africa Interpreters and Translators Association

Honourable Mention: Marius Swart – SATI, South Africa’s Translators’ Institute

FIT Prize for Excellence in Scientific and Technical Translation
Luis Alberto Gonzalez Moreno, ACTI, Asociación Cubana de Traductores e Interpretes

Honourable Mention: Morteza Neshat, ITIA, Iranian Translators and Interpreters Association

Albin Tybulewicz Prize for Professional Solidarity in the Translation and Interpreting Community
Sergio Alarcón, CMIC, Colegio Mexicano de Intérpretes de Conferencias

and 

Adriana Zuñiga ACOTIP, Asociacion Costarricense de Traductores e Interpretes Profesionales