Congratulations to our colleague Johannes D. Kaminsky for the outstanding publication award from SAS for his monograph Lives and Deaths of Werther. Interpretation, Translation, and Adaptation in Europe and East Asia (Oxford University Press, 2023). On September 18, he accepted this special award together with the other SAS researchers from the SAS President Prof. Pavol Šajgalík and the Vice-President for research and innovation, Prof. Peter Samuely.

The monograph’s original research contribution is based on the author’s exceptional linguistic competence and an uncommon comparison of European and Asian reception of Goethe’s novel, analysing non-Eurocentric assessment of one of the most famous works of Western literary culture.

Open access HERE.