The Corneliu M Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation
Judges 2011
The judges of this year's prize are:
Jane Draycott's new translation of the medieval dream-elegy Pearl, an extract from which was a Stephen Spender Prize-winner 2008, is published this year by Carcanet/OxfordPoets. Nominated as a Next Generation poet, and a previous winner of the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry, her collections include The Night Tree and Prince Rupert's Drop (Oxford Poets) and Tideway and Christina the Astonishing (with Lesley Saunders) from Two Rivers Press. Her most recent collection Over was shortlisted for the 2009 TS Eliot Prize. She teaches at the University of Oxford and Lancaster University.
Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. She worked for the British Council in Russia in the 1990s where she set up the Russian New Writing Project with the Royal Court Theatre. Since her return in 2001 she has translated new plays for the Court, the RSC and other theatre companies. She has published two collections of translations of Russian poetry. The most recent, Birdsong on the Seabed, (Bloodaxe) by Elena Shvarts was a PBS choice and shortlisted for the Popescu and Academica Rossica Translation Awards. A third collection of her own poems The Red House is published by Carcanet in August 2011.
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