| The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation: 2007 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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Winner
Josie Chubb, ‘Sound of the Bell’ by Pierre Reverdy (French)
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Commended
Ana O’Shaughnessy-Gutierrez, ‘To an Old Elm Tree’ by Antonio Machado (Spanish)
Jamie Gore, ‘Tomorrow at Dawn’ by Victor Hugo (French)
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Winners
1st: Jenny Harris, Odes I.IX by Horace (Latin)
Joint 2nd: Clare Bristow, an extract from ‘The Wanderer’ anonymous (Anglo-Saxon)
Joint 2nd: Daniel Hitchens, ‘A Discussion of the Poem’ by Christoph Meckel (German)
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Commended
Clare Bristow, an extract from ‘The Wife’s Lament’ (Anglo-Saxon)
Alice Malin, ‘Ode to a Chestnut on the Ground’ and ‘Ode to a Watch at Night’ by Pablo Neruda (Spanish)
Emily Tesh, an extract from Electra by Sophocles (ancient Greek)
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Winners
1st: Allen Prowle, ‘Poppies’ by Attilio Bertolucci (Italian)
2nd: John Richmond, ‘Lemons’ by Eugenio Montale (Italian)
Joint 3rd: Peter Zollman, ‘Aeneas and Dido’ by István Baka (Hungarian)
Joint 3rd: Gordon Wallace, an extract from Inferno, Canto V by Dante (Italian)
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Commended
Elizabeth Stanley, ‘To the Jew who Walked away’ by Leen Deij (Esperanto)
Mike Mitchell, ‘The Denotation of Babel’ by Helmut Krausser (German)
Stephanie Norgate, an extract from Aeneid II by Virgil (Latin)
Jason Warren, an extract from Tristia by Ovid (Latin)
J S Tennant, an extract from Metamorphoses XI by Ovid (Latin)
Nicholas Slater, an extract from ‘Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes’ by Rilke (German)
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| Judges' Comments
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Josephine Balmer
Susan Bassnett
Karen Leeder
M. Wynn Thomas
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