Chiara Nardo receives Letterenfonds Vertaaltalent Prijs 2026
25 June 2026
Chiara Nardo (1976) has been awarded the Letterenfonds Vertaatalent Prijs 2026 (the Dutch Foundation for Literature Translation Talent Prize) for her exceptional translations from Dutch into Italian. She was selected by the jury from a strong field of twenty nominees, all of whom are distinguished by the high quality of their work and who contribute in various ways to the field of literary translation from Dutch. Chiara Nardo will receive the prize on the 26th of June at the Literaire Vertaaldagen, an annual event for literary translators in and from Dutch.
The jury consists of Haidee Kotze (chair and professor of Translation Studies at Utrecht University), Emmanuelle Tardif (Dutch–French translator) and Olga Amagliani (Dutch–Italian translator).
Chiara Nardo studied classical languages at the University of Padua, specialising in Latin, and graduated cum laude. In 2005, she completed a course in Dutch as a second language at the Language Centre of Tilburg University. She then went on to study for a Master’s degree in Dutch Language and Literature, which she also completed cum laude. She has been working as a literary translator from Dutch since 2011. She has translated both fiction and non-fiction by authors such as Sandra Langereis, Eva Meijer, Mathijs Deen, Frank Westerman, Olivier Van Beemen, David Van Reybrouck and Bart Van Loo.