Special Book Award of China

Recipients

2019 (13th year) - 12 awards‘BEST-EVER’ BEIJING INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR SCORES ‘A WORLD FIRST’ http://www.bibf.net/EN/NewsDetail.aspx?Id=152&NID=35&PID=35

• Bonnie Suzanne McDougall, Australian translator and academic.
• Daniel Bell, Canadian academic, author of The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy.
• Yuri Tavrovskiy, Russian historian, author of Xi Jinping: Governance Thought in Shape, the first book published in Russia about paramount leader Xi Jinping.
• Ioan Budura, Romanian translator, translator of two volumes of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China.
• Fabian Lebenglik, Argentinian publisher, president of Adriana Hidalgo Editora.
• Sotiris Chalikias, Greek translator of Chinese philosophy.
• András Sándor Kocsis, Hungarian publisher, including The Hungary Chinese and Chinese Hungary Dictionary.
• Abbas Kdaimy, Iraqi translator and editor, translator of Xi Jinping: Governance of China vol. 1 into Arabic.
• Yuri Pines, Israeli academic, author of Envisioning Eternal Empire: Chinese Political Thought Of The Warring States Era.
• Seken Aday, Kazakh academic and translator, especially of Chinese social scientists.
• Hong Jungsun, Korean academic and publisher, including Chinese Modern Literature and Modernisation.
• Leopold Moravcik. Slovak writer, including China on the Long March.

• Yara El Masri, Egypt.
• Stefan Christ, German translator of contemporary Chinese theatre.
• Kiran Gautam, Nepali.

  2018 (12th year) - 15 awardsChina recognizes 15 in prestigious book awards

• Andrzej Kacperski, Polish publisher.
• Staburova Jelena, Latvian researcher of Chinese language and literature.
• The Nepali translator of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, vol. 1.
• The Uzbek translator of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China, vol. 1.
• Kalmar Eva, Hungarian literary translator of Journey to the West and other works.
• Olivia Milburn, British translator of spy novelist Mai Jia's works Decoded and In the Dark.
• Balan Luminita Rodica, Romanian translator.

  2017 (11th year) - 20 awards11th Special Book Award of China winners meet in Beijing, ''China Daily'', 24 Aug 2017. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-08/24/content_31045603.htmForeign translators, writers recognised for promoting Chinese culture, Chinaculture.org, 2017-08-23. http://en.chinaculture.org/2017-08/23/content_1059029.htm

• Richard Charkin, British publisher.
• Iljaz Spahiu, Albanian translator.
• Alicia Relinque, Spanish translator.
• Paul White, English translator.
• Petko Hinov, Bulgarian sinologist, translator of Dream of the Red Chamber into Bulgarian.

  2016 (10th year)

2015 (9th year) - 20 awardsTwenty foreigners win the 9th Special Book Award of China in Beijing, Chinaculture.org, 2015-08-26.

• Colin Patrick Mackerras, Australian Sinologist and writer.
• John Makeham, Australian translator and professor of Sinology.
• Lisa Carducci, Canadian writer.
• Francois Cheng, Chinese French translator and writer.
• Joël Bellassen, French Sinologist.
• Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, German Sinologist.
• Wilt Idema, Dutch translator and Sinologist.
• Keo Mackaphonh, Laotian writer.
• Menerel Chimedtseye, Mongolian translator and professor.
• Adam Marszalek, Polish publisher.
• Leonard Perelomov, Russian Sinologist and translator.
• Marina Čarnogurská, Slovakian translator.
• Angel Fernandez, Spanish publisher.
• Robert Baensch, American publisher.
• Guy Salvatore Alitto, American Sinologist.

• Ahmed Sayyid, Egyptian publisher.
• Guang Min, Chinese-Burmese translator.
• Zombory Klara, Hungarian translator.
• Samir Ahmed, Jordanian writer and translator.
• Eric Abrahamsen, American translator.