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Anthropo-Scenes: A Climate Fiction Competition

Announcing a new fiction writing competition run by the Climaginaries Research Group in cooperation with the Narrating Climate Futures initiative. Submission deadline 15th August 2019 -- full details can be found here.


2018 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation shortlist announced

The £1000 prize was established by the University of Warwick in 2017 to address the gender imbalance in translated literature and to increase the number of international women’s voices accessible by a British and Irish readership. More information about this year's shortlist can be found here.

Wed 07 Nov 2018, 12:55 | Tags: Prizes, awards, long / shortlist, Translation studies

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist announced

15 titles have been longlisted for the second annual award of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.

The £1000 prize was established by the University of Warwick in 2017 to address the gender imbalance in translated literature and to increase the number of international women’s voices accessible by a British and Irish readership.

The shortlist is due to be announced in early November 2018.

Tue 09 Oct 2018, 10:11 | Tags: Prizes, awards, long / shortlist, Translation studies

Graeme Macdonald's Petrocultures conference a success

Graeme Macdonald's Petrocultures event at Glasgow University this month was a huge success, reported on in the media, and with a sell-out Town Hall event. Congratulations to Graeme on a fantastic conference.


Laura Shanahan is prose runner-up for the World Literature Today Translation Prize

Many congratulations to Laura Shanahan, postgraduate student on the MA in Literary Translation Studies (who had been have been shortlisted for the John Dryden Translation Competition), has been chosen as the prose runner-up for the World Literature Today Translation Prize for her translation from Italian of an excerpt from Anna Maria Ortese's short story 'The Silence of Reason'. Cick here for more information.


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