The new book of Professor José María Rodríguez-García, The City of Translation: Poetry and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), has won the 2010 PROSE Award for Excellence in the category of Literature, Language, and Linguistics -- one of several American Publishers Awards for Scholarly and Professional Publishing handed out every year.
The book was also a finalist in the Humanities category.
The City of Translation
sets out to answer two questions: how did poetry, philology, catechesis, and literary translation legitimate a coterie of right-wing literati’s rise to power in Colombia? And how did these men proceed to dismantle a long-standing liberal-democratic state without derogating basic constitutional freedoms?
For more information, please see the publisher's website.