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Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize

Annual prize awarded by the Modern Language Association

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ30589430 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize is an annual prize given to a language translator by the Modern Language Association.

Eligibility

The 2017 prize will be awarded for a book published in 2015 or 2016.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize” as annual prize awarded by the Modern Language Association. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Kenneth, Mildenberger and Prize.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Kenneth, Mildenberger and Prize providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q30589430. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017, 2015 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.