Tchernichovsky Prize

Tchernichovsky Prize
Awarded for	Exemplary translation to Hebrew
Country	Israel
Presented by	Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality
First awarded	1942 (first award 1943)

The Tchernichovsky Prize is an Israeli prize awarded to individuals for exemplary works of translation into Hebrew. It is awarded by the municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo.^[1] Although initially awarded annually, it is now awarded every two years.

The prize was founded, in the name of the poet Shaul Tchernichovsky, following a 1942 resolution of the municipality. Tchernichovsky himself participated in formulating the policies for the grant of the award and attended the first award ceremony for the prize in 1943.^[1]

References

1 2 Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality website (in Hebrew) - Tchernichovsky Prize. Retrieved 7 February 2011

Literature in Israel / Israeli literature

Publishers	Am Oved Carta Hakibbutz Hameuchad Keter Mapa Massada Books Matar Ministry of Defense Modan Books Mosad Bialik Schocken Books Yad Ben Zvi Yedioth Books Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir

Hebrew literature	Authors Poets Playwrights

Literary awards	Bernstein Prize Brenner Prize Bialik Prize Geffen Award Israel Prize Jerusalem Prize Lamdan Prize Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Writers Sapir Prize Tchernichovsky Prize Yitzhak Sadeh Prize Ze'ev Prize

Organizations	Hebrew Writers Association in Israel

Bookstore chains	Steimatzky Tzomet Sfarim Yudan

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Monday, February 15, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.