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Winners of the 2012 John Dryden Translation Competition

First Prize
Peter McCambridge, From Bestiaire: ‘The Cat’ by Eric Dupont

Second Prize
Bernard Adams, Extracts from The Hangman’s House by Andrea Tompa

Third Prize
Stephen Walsh, ‘Walking in the Ruins’ by Ndabezinhle Sigogo

Commendation
Teresa Quinn, ‘Classified ad.’ by Marie-Hélène Lafon


Results, 1995-2011

 


Results, 2011

Joint First Prize
Clive Lawrence, From “Cassandra” by Pierre de Ronsard
Kate Roy, Desert Sky, Land of Stars by Sudabeh Mohafez

Third prize
Simon Bruni, Cell 211 by Francisco Pérez Gandul

Commendation
Mari Seaword, At Cape Kinosaki by Naoya Shiga


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Results, 2009

First Prize
John R.G. Turner, Seven Tricky Verlaines

Second Prize
Simon Patton, The Goddess of Lhasa River, by Ma Yuan

Third Prize
Paul Vincent, Desertology, by Leonard Nolens

Commendations
Joel Graham, Labyrinth's End, by Salvador Espriu
Margaret Jull Costa, Cards on the Table, by Teolinda Gersão


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Results, 2008

First Prize
Neil B. Bishop, In Long, Secret Rivers, by Annick Perrot-Bishop

Second Prize
Bernard Adams, Kornél Esti, by Dezsö Kosztolányi

Third Prize
Joel Graham, Cemetery at Sinera, by Salvador Espriu

Commendation
Stefan Tobler, from Rio Silêncio, by Antônio Moura

 


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Results, 2007

Winners of the 2007 Translation Competition

First Prize

Sevin Seydi and Maurice Whitby, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, by Oguz Atay

Second Prize

Colin Anderson, Odes, by Horace

Third Prize

Flavia Cosma and Charles Siedlecki, In the Arms of the Father, by Flavia Cosma


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RESULTS, 2006

Winners of the 2006 Translation Competition

First Prize

Christopher Pilling, Poems of Catullus

Second Prize

Angus Turvill, The Otter, by Mukoda Kuniko

Third Prize

Marielle Sutherland, Extinguished, by Catrin Barnsteiner


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RESULTS, 2005

First Prize

Rosemary Clark
Love for Marie, by Pierre de Ronsard

Second Prize

Prudence Borthwick
The Happiness of Kati, by Ngarmpun Vejjajiva

Third Prize

Martin Sorrell
Five Times, by François Villon

COMMENDED

Andrew J. Davidson
Britannicus, by Jean Racine

James Kirkup
Twenty Poems, by Mario Luzi

The prize-giving ceremony will be held on Tuesday 13 September as part of the BCLA workshop conference "Literature Travels" (University of Wolverhampton Telford Campus, 12-14 September 2005).


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RESULTS, 2004

First Prize

Iain Galbraith
Tropical: On the Sublime, by Raoul Schrott

Second Prize (Joint)

Robert and Elizabeth Chandler
The Macedonian Officer, by Andrey Platonov

Jane Tozer
Knights of Love, by Marie de France

The prize-giving ceremony was held on Wednesday 14 July at the University of Leeds, as part of the Tenth BCLA International Conference "Invention - Literature and Science".


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RESULTS, 2003

PRIZE-WINNERS

First Prize

Timothy Adès
Moscow, Waterloo, St Helena, by Victor Hugo

Second Prize

Brian Cole
The 20 Poems and a Song of Despair, by Pablo Neruda

Third Prize

Toby Garfitt
Mouloud the Cat, by Jean Grenier

COMMENDED

Will Firth
Lend the King a Hand, by Igor Hergenröther

Beate Perrey and Jonathan Dunsby
Schubert, by T. W. Adorno

Susan Reynolds
The Wedding Shirts/The Wild Dove, by Karel Jaromír Erben

Beverley Charles Rowe
100,000,000,000,000 Sonnets, by Raymond Queneau

Anita Shenoi
Popular Music from Vittula, Ch. 11, by Mikael Niemi

The prize-giving ceremony, with readings and a reception, was held on Tuesday 9 September in Goldsmiths College London, as part of the BCLA's workshop conference "autobiografictions".


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RESULTS AND WINNING ENTRIES, 2002

PRIZE-WINNERS

First Prize

Mike Mottram
Latin Poems, by George Herbert

Second Prize

Timothy Adès
Against the Grain, by Robert Desnos

Third Prize (Joint)

Anamaria Crowe Serrano and Riccardo Duranti
Instructions on How to Read a Newspaper, by Valerio Magrelli

and

Kathryn Woodham
The Big Black Axle, by Herta Müller

COMMENDED

Wendy Griswold
The Southern Expressway, by Julio Cortázar

Anna-Marjatta Milsom
The Roads on the Island Closed and Opened Again, by Lydia Cabrera

Christopher Pilling
Defying Fate, by Maurice Carême

The prize-giving ceremony was held on Sunday 23 September 2002 in the Voice Box at the South Bank Centre in London.


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RESULTS, 2001

PRIZE-WINNERS

First Prize

Silvester Mazzarella
Lord Nevermore, by Agneta Pleijel

Second Prize

Brian Cole
Selected Poems of Circe Maia

Third Prize

Bernard Meares
Inventing the World, by Olivier Rolin

COMMENDED

Neil Bishop
The Devil Knows/The Trickster Teacher, by Robert Lalonde

Cecilia Rossi
Selected Poems of Alejandra Pizarnik

Anthony Vivis
Her Letter About the Wedding, by Botho Strauss

The prize-giving ceremony was held on Sunday 23 September 2001 in the Voice Box, Royal Festival Hall, London, as part of the conference 'Creative Revelations: Translators and their Writers'.


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RESULTS, 2000

PRIZE-WINNERS

First Prize

Anabel Torres
'This Place in the Night' (by José Manuel Arango)

Second Prize

Philip Roughton
'The Fair Maiden' (by Halldór Laxness)

Third Prize

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia
'Lucia McCartney' (by Rubem Fonseca)

COMMENDED

Colin Anderson
'The Bombing of Nantes' (by Jean Rouaud)

Paul Burns
'Selected Poems' (by Antonio Machado)

Amaia Gabantxo
'Other Ends' (by Anjel Lertxundi)


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RESULTS, 1999

PRIZE-WINNERS

First Prize (Joint)

Celia de Fréine (Dublin)
Celia de Fréine, Of Cabbages and Queens

Cecilia Rossi (Buenos Aires)
Alejandra Pizarnik, Diana's Tree

Third Prize

Bill Kirton (Aberdeen)
Molière, Sganarelle

Special Prize for Translation from the Dutch
Donated by the Royal Netherlands Embassy, London

Annelies Bayliss, Lindsay Edwards, Theo Hermans, Katheryn Ronnau-Bradbeer (London)
Frank Martinus Arion, Autumn Reverie

COMMENDED

Gerald Chapple (Dundas, Ontario)
Josef Haslinger, The Battle for Vienna

Richard George Elliott (London)
Hervé Guibert, The Story of My Valet

Robert Mezey and R. G. Barnes (Claremont, California)
Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Poems

J. Michael Walton (Hull)
Euripides, Medea

The prize-giving ceremony was held on Friday 10 September 1999 at the University of Essex/BCLA conference on Translation and Nation.


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RESULTS, 1998

PRIZE-WINNERS

First Prize

Georgina Paul
For the translation from the German of Barbara Köhler (Deutsches Roulette/German Roulette)

Second Prize

Daniel Price
For the translation from the French of Christian Bobin (La Folle Allure/The Song of the Blue Whales)

Third Prize (Joint)

Robert Hueckstedt
For the translation from the Hindi of Manohar Shyam Joshi (The Perplexity of Hariya Hercules/Hariya Hercules ki Hairani)

Catherine Jonet
For the translation from the Spanish of F. García Lorca (Divan del Tamarit/Divan of Tamarit)

COMMENDED

A.D.P. Briggs
For the translation from the Russian of Alexander Pushkin (Tsar Nikita)

Gillian Clarke
For the translation from the Welsh of Kate Roberts (Tegwch y Bore/One Bright Morning)

Carol O'Sullivan
For the translation from the Italian of Stefano Benni (Il Bar sotto il Mare)

Catherine Sommer
For the translation from the German of Nelly Sachs (selected poems)

Christine Walter
For the translation from the Danish of Hans Kirk (Skyggespil/Shadow Play)

The prize-giving ceremony was held on Wednesday 15 July 1998 at the University of Lancaster as part of the BCLA's Eighth International Conference "Legenda: Reading and Writing Myth".


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RESULTS, 1997

OPEN PRIZE

First Prize (Tied)

Peter Hazeldine
Selections from The Greek Anthology

David Horton
Two excerpts from Ulrike Kolb, Schönes Leben

Second Prize

Cecilia Rossi
Julio Cortázar, 'De edades y tiempos'/'Of Ages and Times'

Commended

John Dewey
Pushkin, The Bronze Horseman

Francis Jones
Excerpts from Mak Dizdar, Kameni spavac/Stone Sleeper

Len Krisak
Virgil, 'Eclogue II'

Richard Lynn
Pierre Daninos, 'Le prince noir'/'The Black Prince'

DANISH PRIZE
(Established by the Danish Embassy, London
)

First Prize

Pernille Chapman
Knud H. Thomsen, 'Roverne i Skotland'/'The Scotland Highwaymen'

Commended

Line Dam
Herman Bang, 'A Poet's Wife'

Claire Thomson
Klaus Rifbjerg, 'Under vejr med mig selv'/'Bringing myself to Light'


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RESULTS, 1996

OPEN PRIZE

First Prize (Tied)

Douglas Reid Skinner and Marco Fazzini
Selected Poems of Valerio Magrelli

Timothy Ades
Jean Cassou, Trente-trois sonnets composés au secret

Second Prize

David Horton
Ulrike Kolb, Danach

Commended

Bill Findlay and Martin Bowman
Michel Marc Bouchard, Les Feluettes

J. Kooman
Henk Romijn Meijer, Mijn naam is Garrigue

SWEDISH PRIZE
(Established by the Anglo-Swedish Literary Foundation)

First Prize

Dr Sarah Death
Inger Edelfeldt, Uppe på hygget

Second Prize

Tom Ellett
Hjalmar Söderberg, Martin Bircks ungdom

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