Announcing the winners of the 2012 Compass Award

[Sibelan Forrester]

2012 Compass Award Winners Announced

The editors and partners of Cardinal Points Literary Journal are pleased 
to announce the results of the 2012 Compass Translation competition 
(Russian poetry in English). The Compass Award was established in 2011 
by Cardinal Points Journal in order to recognize the best English 
translations of Russian poetry. Each year the competition is dedicated 
to the works of a particular Russian poet. In the inaugural 2011 
competition, the poet was Nikolay Gumilyov. In 2012, the poet is Marina 
Tsvetaeva.

Throughout the first half of 2012, we received more than 70 translations 
of Marina Tsvetaeva’s poems, rendered by contestants from the United 
States, Russia, Europe, Egypt, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. By 
early August a team of judges – consisting of 16 scholars, poets, and 
translators – came together to select a short list of 8 poems, and 
ultimately decide on the top 3 translations. The winners were selected 
in early October.

Below are the results of 2012 Compass Award competition:


1st prize: The Poem of the End
Alyssa Gillespie, USA


2nd prize: Upon a Red Steed
Brian Droitcour, USA


3rd prize: An Attempt at Jealousy
Leah Goldberger, Egypt and Eugene Serebryany, USA


Congratulations to the winners, and to everyone who participated in this 
competition! The place and time for the Compass Award-2012 ceremony will 
be announced soon. The shortlisted translations will be published in 
both Cardinal Points and Стороны Света journals, as well as in 
Russiapedia – a special online encyclopedic project by RT.


The poet for the 2013 contest will be announced on December 3, 2012.


Committee
CompassTranslation Award
http://www.stosvet.net/compass/tsvetaeva.html

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