Fw: BCLA/BCLT Translation Competition 1999-2000

[Andrew Jameson]

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From: Duncan Large <D.A.G.Large at swansea.ac.uk>
To: german-studies at mailbase.ac.uk
Subject: BCLA/BCLT Translation Competition 1999-2000
Date: 18 November 1999 22:16

--- 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 1999-2000. 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unpublished literary translations from any language into English.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: stlg350;
Second Prize: stlg200; third prize: stlg100; other entries may receive
commendations.

Winning entries will be published in the annual journal Comparative
Criticism (Cambridge University Press).

Judges will be selected from the following: Peter Bush, translator
and Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation; Peter
France, Editor of The Oxford Guide to Literature in English
Translation; Stuart Gillespie, Editor of Translation & Literature;
Elinor Shaffer, ex officio as Editor of Comparative Criticism; Arthur
Terry, translator and former Director of the MA in Literary
Translation, University of Essex; Daniel Weissbort, translator and
editor of Modern Poetry in Translation.

There will be a five-pound (stlg5) entry fee. Prize-winners will be
announced in July 2000 on the BCLA website, <http://www.bcla.org/>,
and prizes will be presented later in the year.

For details and an entry form, see the BCLA website,
<http://www.bcla.org/>, or contact Mrs Mary Fox, School of Language,
Linguistics and Translation Studies, University of East Anglia,
Norwich NR4 7TJ, England, marking your envelope 'Translation
Competition', or telephone +44 (0)1603 592143, or contact us by
email on <transcomp at uea.ac.uk>.

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: 31 JANUARY 2000