Wayne A. Rebhorn, Celanese Centennial Professor of English, has won the PEN Literary Award for his translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece The Decameron.
The PEN Literary Awards have honored and introduced some of the most outstanding voices in literature for more than 50 years. The awards will be presented at the 24th Annual Literary Awards Festival Nov. 11 in Beverly Hills, California.
“Professor Rebhorn’s translation of Boccaccio’s Decameron is not only a scholarly triumph: its lively and flexible language gives contemporary readers a new chance to appreciate these fresh, funny sexy stories,” says Elizabeth Cullingford, professor and chair of the Department of English.
A leading scholar of Renaissance literature, Rebhorn has won numerous literary awards and prizes and has been invited to lecture at major universities throughout the United States as well as in France, Italy and Germany.