Marina Skalova
Switzerland
Marina Skalova is awarded the 2026 Viceversa Prize for her translation of Levin Westermann’s poetry collection Unbekannt verzogen (Luxbooks 2012):
With lexical precision and a keen ear for sound, Marina Skalova makes Levin Westermann’s sober, intimate yet reality-laden poems accessible to a French-speaking audience and provides the collection with an insightful introduction.
Marina Skalova (born in Moscow in 1988) grew up in Paris and Berlin and now lives as a writer and translator of poetry, prose and plays in Geneva. She translates from German and Russian into French, including works by Dorothee Elmiger, Sacha Filipenko, Galina Rymbu and Lida Youssoupova.
31st Leukerbad International Literary Festival:
