Three winners of the Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize in conversation with Sasha Dugdale and Glyn Maxwell
7–8.30pm, Monday 17 June 2013
Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2TA
Sasha Dugdale will interview Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski about translating Arseny Tarkovsky; Glyn Maxwell and Alexandra Berlina will talk about translating Joseph Brodsky.
Tickets £7 (£5 concessions) from
Pushkin House
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The Times Stephen Spender Prize 2013
for poetry in translation
The
2013 competition has now closed. The winners will be announced on this website and in The Times on Saturday 2 November 2013.
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A brilliant translation of a bad poem can't help but be a good poem according to George Szirtes.
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'My best gift from the Stephen Spender prize is self-belief. Translation freed me from years of writer's block, renewed my confidence, and led to the publication of my first book...' (Jane Tozer, 2012).
Read past winners' news…
Translation Nation: inspiring language-learning and celebrating linguistic diversity in primary and secondary schools
As well as a 2012
European Language Label for innovation in primary language teaching,
Translation Nation has won a EuroTalk Primary Education Language Prize. Listen to
Michael Rosen talk about his visit to one of the participating schools. Read lead translator Sarah Ardizzone's
blog.
The Joseph Brodsky/Stephen Spender Prize 2012
The winners were announced in December 2012.
Read the 2012 winning entries.
New Selected Journals, 1939–1995
Published in July 2012, the Journals are "absorbing, generous and funny" (Peter Parker,
Daily Telegraph). Read Jason Harding's
review in the
London Magazine.
