BHS Grad Takes Literary Prize

Anne Posten, a 2004 graduate of , has earned a literary award for her work in translating a German novella.

Posten was awarded the first Loose Translation Prize this year for her original translation of Der Schöne Ort (This Beautiful Place), by German playwright Tankred Dorst, according to a release issued by Queens College.

“I read it and instantly fell in love,” said Posten, on accepting the translation project.

Posten, now in her final year of a master's program at Queens College in New York, was able to meet the author, 87, and his life partner Ursula Ehler while in Munich this January, according to a press release.

“The book has been a pleasure and a challenge to translate, and I am thrilled to be the first winner of this prize,” Posten said in the release. “Since my first reading of This Beautiful Place, I have believed that Dorst’s work needs to be shared with the English-speaking world.”

Posten will be in Annapolis from 7-9 p.m. July 12 for a book-signing event at .