[source: Comparative-Literature]
Translation Competition
British Comparative Literature Association
British Centre for Literary Translation
The British Comparative Literature Association and the
British Centre for Literary Translation (University of East
Anglia) are pleased to announce their continued joint
sponsorship of a Translation Competition for 1997-98. Prizes
will be awarded for the best unpublished literary translations
from any language into English. Literary translation includes
poetry, prose, or drama, from any period; entries may be up to
25 pages in length. First prize: £350; second prize:£200; third
prize: £100. Other entries may receive commendations.
Winning entries will be published in the annual journal
Comparative Criticism (Cambridge University Press). Winners
who wish to be considered for a one-month residential bursary
at the British Centre for Literary Translation will be given
special consideration for one of the Centre's bursary awards.
Judges
Judges will be selected from the following panel: Terry Hale,
translator and Director of the British Centre for Literary
Translation; Daniel Weissbort, translator and editor of
Modern Poetry in Translation; Arthur Terry, translator and
former Director of the MA in Literary Translation, University
of Essex; Elinor Shaffer, ex officio as Editor of Comparative
Criticism; Stuart Gillespie, Editor of Translation and
Literature; Peter France, President of the BCLA and Editor of
The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation.
There is a £5 entry fee. Prize-winners will be announced in
July 1998 and prizes will be presented at the BCLA
International Triennial Congress in Lancaster in July 1998.
For further details and entry form, please write to:
Christine Wilson, Translation Competition, British Centre
for Literary Translation, School of Modern Languages and
European Studies, University of East Anglia, GB-Norwich
NR4 7TJ; tel./fax: (+44) (0)1603 592785; e-mail:
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Deadline for entries: 31 January 1998
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