| The Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation: 2009 winners
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| 14-and-under prize
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Winner
1st: Johanna Reimann-Dubbers, ‘The Cricket and the Ant’ by La Fontaine (French)
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Commended
Maddy Cummins,
‘Atalanta’ by Ovid (Latin)
Charlie Dowding,
‘The Miracles of Our Lady’ by Gonzalo de Berceo (Spanish)
Marwin Kalo,
‘The Aral Sea’ by Raim Farkhadi (Russian)
Robert Longman,
‘If My Voice Dies on Land’ by Rafael Alberti (Spanish)
William Yates,
‘The Horse and the Wolf’ by La Fontaine (French) |
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| 18-and-under
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Winners
1st: Naomi Ackerman, from The Iliad, Book 24 by Homer (Ancient Greek)
2nd: Clara Yick Kay Fung, ‘Phoenix Hairpin’ by Lu You
(Classical Chinese)
3rd: Jennifer Cearns, 'Dead in the Water' by Georg Heym
(German)
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Commended
Claire Ewbank,
‘The Rats’ by Georg Trakl (German)
Nadan Hadzic, ‘Sarajevo’s Prayer’ by Abdulah Sidran (Bosnian)
Christina Macsween, from Metamorphoses XII by Ovid (Latin)
Caitlin Spencer, ‘Amores 1.12’ Ovid (Latin)
Saskia Volhard Dearman, ‘Ode to Coastal Flowers’ by Pablo Neruda (Spanish)
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| Open
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Winners
1st: Paul Batchelor, 'The Damned' from Inferno, Canto V, by Dante Alighieri (Italian)
2nd: Michael Swan, 'God, My Good Neighbour' by Rainer Maria Rilke (German)
3rd: Jane Tozer, ‘Leper’ by Béroul (Medieval French)
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Commended
A. C. Clarke,
‘The Double Room’ by Charles Baudelaire (French)
Timothy Taylor,
‘Corpse Washing’ by Rainer Maria Rilke (German)
John Turner,
‘Sonnet for Autumn’ by Sully Prudhomme (French)
Stefanie Van de Peer,
‘Psalm’ by Herman de Coninck (Flemish)
Mary Weatherburn, 'A Small Garden' by Rin Ishigaki (Japanese) |
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| Judges' Comments
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Susan Bassnett
Edith Hall
Karen Leeder
George Szirtes
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