The Stephen Spender Prize is the UK's biggest prize for poetry translation, and is open to everybody, regardless of linguistic skill or poetic experience. It was also a contender for "Book of the Year" at the 2008 Moscow International . The men that I meet The 2022 Prize was judged by Rosalind Harvey (Chair), Kit Fan and Kyoo Lee. The calendar shows that it is autumn, but I don't see it. For more information, please visit our FAQ page. Translated from the Arabic byKareem James Abu-Zeid Pandemic Paradox: how reading poetry during the pandemic drew us closer together. A scholar active in editorial fieldwork, she translates from Korean into English. Saturnalia BooksAwards for Collections of Poetry Interested in working with Saturnalia Books? Each submission is $85. the poetry of other nations and other cultures is probably the best way The Gabo Prize is awarded twice each year. The winner of the prize receives 700, the runner-up 200, and the third-place winner 100. Since 1934, the Academy of American Poets has provided visibility and financial support to poets demonstrating artistic excellence. Nancy Naomi Carlsons masterful translations distinctly deliver Torabullys unique voice to English speakers. We celebrate multilingualism and literary translation through a range of initiatives, including our Poetry in Translation Prize and Creative Translation education programmes. The prize was relaunched in 2003, and renamed in honour of the. In the mid-1990s, Sarah was approached by the British Council to be the first writer they sent on outreach trips to Palestine (1996) and Yemen (1998). Her work has appeared in a variety of national and international publications and has been translated . Kit Fan is a novelist, poet, and critic. All residents and citizens of the UK and Ireland, of all ages, can enter. ASF Translation Prizes. On the submission form, please select the award you are submitting to. The Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation is awarded every two years for the best book of poetry from a living poet from Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East in English . Freed from the pressure to make a profit, poetry translation is more likely to encourage experimental strategies that can release creative energies. Please note that due to health concerns surrounding COVID-19, we are asking that all submissions payments be made via credit card. Soje. Bookshop, 2021 Steve Bradbury for his translation from the Chinese of Raised by Wolves: Poems and Conversations, Amang(Phoneme Media), 2020 Kristin Dykstra and Nancy Gates Madsen for their translation from the Spanish of The Winter Garden Photograph byReina Mara Rodrguez (Ugly Duckling Presse), 2019Richard Sieburth for his translation from the French ofA Certain Plumeby Henri Michaux (NYRB), 2017 Simon Armitage for his translation from Middle English of Pearl: A New Verse Translation (Liveright/W.W Norton & Company), 2016 Sawako Nakayasu, for her translation from the Japanese of The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa (Canarium Books), 2015 Eliza Griswold, I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistanby Anonymous (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 2014 Karen Emmerich & Edmund Keeley, Diaries of Exile by Yannis Ritsos (Archipelago), 2013 Molly Weigel, The Shock of the Lenders and Other Poems by Jorge Santiago Perednik (Action Books), 2012 Jen Hofer, Negro Marfil/ Ivory Black by Myriam Moscona (Les Figues Press), 2011 Khaled Mattawa, Adonis: Selected Poems by Adonis and Khaled Mattawa (Yale University Press), 2010 Anne Carson, An Orestia by Auschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (Faber & Faber), 2009 Marilyn Hacker, King of a Hundred Horsemen by Marie tienne (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), 2008 Rosmarie Waldrop, Lingos I-IX by Ulf Stolterfoht (Burning Deck), 2007 David Hinton, The Selected Poems of Wang Wei by Wang Wei (New Directions), 2006 Wilson Baldridge, Recumbents by Michel Deguy (Wesleyan Poetry Series), 2005 Pierre Joris, Lightduress by Paul Celan (Green Integer), 2004 Peter Cole, JAccuse by Aharon Shabtal (New Directions), 2003 Khaled Mattawa, Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems of Saadi Youssef (Graywolf), 2002 Anne Twitty, Islandia by Maria Negroni (Station Hill), 2001 Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld, Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amicha (Harcourt), 2000 James Brasfield and Oleh Lysheha, The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute), 1999 Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa & Co (Grove), 1998 Eamon Grennan, Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi (Princeton), 1997 Edward Snow, Uncollected Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), 1996 Guy Davenport, editor and translator, 7 Greeks(New Directions), Copyright 2022 PEN America. Two honorable mentions will each receive $250. French. A noted translator chooses the winning book. Harvey is also chair and co-founder of the Emerging Translators Network, and has taught translation at the University of Warwick, the University of Bristol, and the University of Roehampton. All winners, finalists, and longlisters for this award are eligible to receive PEN America's official emblems. When submitting poetry translations, please include a copy of the original text though the original won't be published if your translation is selected for publication. We award four annual prizes for poetry manuscripts. Following pandemic-related protocols, book award submissions will be read as PDF files. Harvey is also chair and co-founder of the Emerging Translators Network, and has taught translation at the University of Warwick, the University of Bristol, and the University of Roehampton. The American-Scandinavian Foundation annually awards three translation prizes for outstanding translations of poetry, fiction, drama, or literary prose written by a 20th or 21st-century Nordic author: The Nadia Christensen Prize includes a $2,500 award, publication of an excerpt in Scandinavian Review, and a commemorative bronze medallion. The Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize Awarded for the best poetry on the theme of the Alpine Fellowship: in 2022 - Freedom. In order to have fees waived, have a company official write a letter on company letterhead stating that the presss annual net sales are less than $2 million. English poetry can benefit hugely from the wealth of knowledge, imagery, metaphors, syntax and poetic traditions in other cultures and languages; something that has for long been ignored in the hegemonic anglophone cultures. Daniel Borzutzky will judge. Exhausted on the Cross is a beautiful collection by one of the Middle Easts best known contemporary poets. The winning poet and their translator(s) will share a 3,000 award. The winner will receive a 3,000 cash prize and will be invited to our symposium. This year's guest judge is Emily Berry. Her translation of The Goddesses of Water, a collection by Mexican poet Jeannette Clariond, is published by Shearsman Books in the UK (August 2021) and World Poetry Books in the US.Her translation of Carmen Boullosa's penultimate novel, The Book of Anna, was published by Coffee House Press last year and her . translation as giving voice to those cultures, which is true but ignores Arabic. It aims to be one small part of breaking down the language barriers that divide us and help make work written in other languages visible to a wider public. The TA First Translation Prize is an annual 2,000 prize for a debut literary translation into English published in the UK and Ireland. Kit Fan is a novelist, poet, and critic. National Poetry Competition Cash Prize: $6,108 Entry Fee: $9 Application Deadline: 10/31/22 Genre: Poetry A prize of 5,000 (approximately $6,108) and publication on the Poetry Society of the United Kingdom website is given annually for a single poem. The 2022 Prize was judged by Rosalind Harvey (Chair), Kit Fan and Kyoo Lee. She has won numerous local and national awards, including the National Poetry Prize for her most recent collection, Katbasis. We will be announcing this years judges The 2022 prize will be given for poetry. Poetry carries rich cultural information and linguistic creativity and has been a major medium for dialogue of cultures and civilisations throughout history. Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude by Khal Torabully, tr. Diana Bellessi: Subjetividad ecolgica y potica de la biodiversidad, Diana Bellessi: Ecological Subjectivity and the Poetics of Biodiversity, Clare Pollard on facilitating her final PTC workshop. And with vivid translations by J. Bret Maney, the imagery of this piece is perfectly illustrated for English speakers. Like any other literary prize, we hope that the Sarah Maguire Prize will attract more attention and a larger readership to poetry translation in general and to poetry translation from under-represented cultures in particular. He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and a winner of Northern Writers Award, the Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize, and POETRYs Editors Prize for Reviewing. Find the full list of winners and judges here. Founded in 1996, the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English. In her introductory lesson plan, Carol calls upon her students to investigate poetry through the lens of their individual cultural backgrounds. The SoA Awards Over 100,000 awarded annually for poetry, fiction, non-fiction and illustration Translation Prizes Cargo Hold of Stars is a homage to the voyage taken by millions of people from India and China to Mauritius and other former European colonies in the 19th and 20th centuries. WLT Student Translation Prize. Translated from the Chinese byStephen Nashef If you have read and enjoyed one of our poems please support us by making a donation today. |, Submission fees may be waived for publishers whose annual net sales are less than $2 million. Sarah Maguire founded the PTC in 2004 and passionately championed poetry translation until the end of her life in 2017. Erased from history, the voices of these men and women are brought to life through Khal Torabullys musical contemplations. He translates from Chinese into English. The prize is awarded biennially to the best book of poetry translated into English from Africa, Asia, the Middle East or Latin America, with the prize money split equally between poet and translator. Working with poets and translators to present translations in English of Palestinian poetry was possible, and there was hope that the influence of these translations would be far-reaching on readers of English.. The 2022 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation is now open to poetry in translation. Currently he is . If you would like to support the prize you can make a one-off or regular donation to the prize, or to be notified of Sarah Maguire Prize news and other poetry translation updates you can sign up to our newsletter. Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky were finalists for the 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize for Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow, translated from the Ukrainian written by Natalka Bilotserkivets (Lost Horse Press). 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