I am honored to have been awarded the Humanities in Translation Prize by Northwestern University for The Book of Mating, my translation of Laksmi Pamuntjak’s Kitab Kawin. Every year Northwestern University Press offers the Humanities in Translation Prize to encourage translations of important literary and scholarly works from around the world. The prize specifically seeks to highlight underrepresented voices and experimental literary works from marginalized communities, humanistic scholarship in less frequently translated languages, and important classical texts from non-Western traditions. It was an honor to work with Laksmi to bring this work into English and I look forward to the book’s publication with Northwestern in early 2026.