Ambassasor Andrew Schapiro congratulated Norma Bean Comrada, U.S. translator and promoter of popular Czech writer Karel Čapek, on the Karel Čapek Medal for Lifetime Achievement which she received on January 31 in Prague from the Čapek Brothers Society.
Ms. Comrada is a devoted researcher of Karel Čapek’s work and life. For Catbird Press she translated Tales from Two Pockets, which was followed, by Apocryphal Tales, Wayside Crosses and Painful Tales, and also Ivan Klíma’s Čapek biography.
All of her translations received fine reviews: Tales from Two Pockets was a Publisher’s Weekly “Best Book of the Year.”
