PEN America invited her to present the PEN award for Poetry in Translation, which was announced live on stage. “I feel like my entire childhood is redefined to find out Molly Ringwald is a translator,” he said, as he collected the prize for translating the English-language version of Paula Ilabaca Nuñez’s The Loose Pearl from Spanish. This was the 59th annual PEN awards ceremony, held at the Town Hall, with comedy legend Tina Fey receiving the PEN/Mike Nichols Writing for Performance Award. Walking the red carpet before the ceremony, dressed in a sparkly signature pink gown, Ringwald was asked what she is currently reading. In 2019, the translation publication Multilingual Connections wrote about her work in an article headlined Pretty in Pink: Molly Ringwald as a Literary Translator.

Source: New York Times March 08, 2023 21:03 UTC