The University of Massachusetts Amherst chose English professor Clyde Moneyhun’s translation of “Ídols” by Gabriel Ferrater (1922-1972) as the winner of the 2022 Sant Jordi Translation Contest. The selection committee included guest judges from Catalonia, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Departments of Spanish and Portuguese Studies and Comparative Literature.
Moneyhun is currently on sabbatical translating Catalan poetry on the Spanish island of Menorca and recently read his translation of the poem at an event to honor his work. The University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Translation Center and Catalan Studies Program, and the Institut Ramon Llull, which promotes Catalan language study at universities abroad, support the annual Sant Jordi program.