| The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation: 2004 winners
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To obtain a free copy of a booklet containing the winning translations and commentaries
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Winners
1st: J C H Potts (aged 17), 'Poem 63' by Catullus (Latin)
2nd: Adrian Pascu (aged 16), 'Dead Man's Ballad' by Ion Minulescu (Romanian)
3rd: Holly Hughes (aged 17), 'Tomorrow, at Dawn' by Victor Hugo (French)
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Commended
Nicholas Langley, 'The Lilacs and the Roses' by Louis Aragon (French)
Viral Kantaria, 'Explaining Some Things' by Pablo Neruda (Spanish)
Ana-Sofia O'Shaugnessey Gutierrez (aged 9), 'Serious Verses' by Gloria Fuertes (Spanish)
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| Over 18
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Winners
1st: Mark Leech, 'The Dream of the Rood' anonymous (Anglo-Saxon)
Joint 2nd: Sasha Dugdale, 'Memory's Sideways Glance' by Elena Shvarts (Russian)
Joint 2nd: Paul Howard, 'The Good Life' by G G Belli (Italian)
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Commended
Kit Fan, 'Wartime' by Ya Hsien (Chinese)
Ben Robson, 'Wulf and Eadwacer' (Anglo-Saxon)
Timothy Wastell, 'The Lay of Volund' (Old Norse)
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| Judges' Comments
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Susan Bassnett
Alan Jenkins
Ewald Osers
Daniel Weissbort
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