Calling final-year undergraduate linguists!

Registration is now open for the University of Warwick Undergraduate Translation Prize, for translation from Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

The theme of this year’s competition is The Travelling Self: the source texts explore experiences of travel, including themes such as cultural/linguistic difference, split sense of identity, and multiple ‘homes’.

Entry is open to final-year undergraduate students of Modern Languages at UK universities – this includes Single Honours, Joint Honours, and any programme in which one or more languages forms a substantial component. The competition this year is for translation from Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish into English.

Separate prizes of £30 each will be awarded for the best translation from each language, with a prize of £75 for the best overall translation.

To enter the competition, please email with the subject line ‘Warwick Undergraduate Translation Prize’. In your email, please include:

• Your name
• The name of your university
• The language of the source text you would like to translate

You will then be sent the source text, submission instructions, and your submission code for each of the languages you would like to submit.

Registration deadline: 5pm GMT, Friday 8th November 2024

Submission deadline: 5pm GMT, Friday 20th December 2024

Eligibility

• You must be a student in the final year of a degree in Modern Languages (including Single Honours and Joint Honours programmes) at a UK university.
• You may submit entries for multiple languages in the competition.
• You may submit only one entry per language.

Judging

Submissions will be judged by staff teaching on the MA in Translation and Cultures , assisted by colleagues from the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Particular attention will be paid to sensitivity to nuance in the source text, and to creative and effective use of the target language.

Winners will be announced in March 2025.