Awards
★ Return to the Place I Never Left is a National Jewish Book Award winner
★ Return to the Place I Never Left is a 2026 IPPY Award Bronze Medalist recipient in the Poetry – Specialty category
★ Return to the Place I Never Left is shortlisted for the 2026 ALTA First Translation Prize
★ Dani James is a CUNY Alumni 50 Under 50 Award recipient
★ Hour of Lead, awarded 1st place, Sidney Harman Fiction Writers Competition, judged by Eduardo Halfon
★ Breach, awarded 2nd place, Sidney Harman Fiction Writers Competition, judged by Elif Batuman
★ Her Breast, awarded 2nd place, Sidney Harman Fiction Writers Competition, judged by Amitav Ghosh
★ Drown, awarded 3rd place, Fiction category, CUNY / Labor Arts Contest
★ Frayed, finalist, Brooklyn Book Festival competition
★ En Masse, included in the We Rise to Resist anthology, won 3 awards in the 2018 American Book Fest International Awards competition, placing 1st in the Anthology and Social Change categories, and as a finalist in the Women’s Issues category
Podcasts
The Creative Penn Podcast Featuring Dani James
The Art and Business of Translation
Speaking Tongues Podcast Featuring Dani James
Speaking Flemish & French with Dani James 🇧🇪
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Media
- How Dani James Brought a Holocaust Survivor’s Story to English Readers – Detroit Jewish News
- Why Tobias Schiff’s Plain-Spoken Memoir Is Essential for a New Generation – Detroit Jewish News
- Translating the Unspeakable: Weissman Alumna Dani James Acclaimed for her Translation of Holocaust Survival Memoir – Baruch Weissman School of Arts & Sciences Feature
- Jewish Book Council Fetes Award Honorees – Publisher’s Weekly
- 75th National Jewish Book Awards – eJewishPhilanthropy
- 75th National Jewish Book Award Winners – Jewish Book Council
- Book Review: Return to the Place I Never Left – Jewish Book Council
- Author’s Guild Spotlight: Dani James – Author’s Guild
- WORD PLAY Press Release – The Revolving Museum
- Hoodie First by Dani James – WORD PLAY
Video
On Memoir: A Translator’s Journey
Events
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Featured events:
- Writing Across Borders: A Translation & Multilingual Writing Workshop, New York Public Library
- Stewarding Stories Across Language, Place, and Time, Black Writers Weekend
- If I Don’t Write About Them They Are Ghosts, New York Public Library
- Dani James on Translating Tobias Schiff’s Journey, Universiteit Antwerpen
- Spring 2025 Harman Fellow on Translation, Baruch College
- Translation as Professional Expertise, Medgar Evers College
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