| The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation: 2006 winners
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To obtain a free copy of a booklet containing the winning translations and commentaries,
please email: info@stephenspender.org |
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| Matthew Spender's 14-and-Under prize
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Joint winners
Louisa Dawes, from Aeneid II by Virgil (Latin)
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Joseph McCrudden, Catullus X (Latin)
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Commended
Ella Kirsh, from Aeneid II by Virgil (Latin)
Henrietta Nehmzow, 'The hen and the carp' by Heinrich Seidel (German)
John O'Shaughnessy-Gutierrez, 'Morning awoke' by Rafael Alberti (Spanish)
Caleb Thompson, Juvenal Satires III and Catullus X (Latin)
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| 18 and under
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Winners
1st: Alice Malin, 'an instant, engraved' by Wulf Kirsten (German)
2nd: Anna Thornton, 'Pygmalion' from Metamorphoses X by Ovid (Latin)
3rd: Adrian Pascu-Tulbure, 'Impromptu quatrains' by George Toparceanu (Romanian)
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Commended
Jeremy Cliffe, 'Inventory of places fit for love' by Angel González (Spanish)
Leo Davidson, from Aeneid II (Latin)
Amelia Penny, from Antigone by Sophocles (ancient Greek)
Laura van Hove, 'Maths' and 'A Briton' by Herman de Coninck (Dutch)
Charles Wood, 'Nala and Damayanti' by Vuara (Sanskrit)
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| Open
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Winners
1st: Jane Tozer, 'Lament of the Gorgeous Helmet-Fettler' by François Villon (medieval French)
Joint 2nd: Kit Fan, 'Thatched house destroyed by an autumn storm' by Du Fu (classical Chinese)
Joint 2nd: Duncan Forbes, 'On the ceiling' by Michelangelo Buonarotti (Italian)
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Commended
Nigel Cooper, 'Th' bowgy mon' by C Knapp (Alsace German)
Mark Leech, 'Lament for the bullfighter Ignacio Sanchez Mejias' by Lorca (Spanish)
Allen Prowle, 'The swan' by Baudelaire (French)
Cecilia Rossi, 'Approximations' by Alejandra Pizarnik (Spanish)
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| Judges' Comments
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Josephine Balmer
Susan Bassnett
M. Wynn Thomas
Daniel Weissbort
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