Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize 2024
Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize: submissions open 20 March to 30 April 2024 Ukrainian Institute London is delighted to announce the Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize 2024. Translations from Ukrainian to English will be accepted until 23:59 BST on 30 April 2024; please adhere to the submission guidelines below or through the link. With this…
UIL Literary Translation Workshop
UIL Literary Translation Workshop Date: 16 December 2023 Location: online (Zoom) We are delighted to offer six up-and-coming literary translators working between Ukrainian and English an opportunity to hone their craft on and beyond the page with this online workshop. Three expert translators will provide their feedback on a sample translation; a literary agent and…
Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize Winner
Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize Winner We’re delighted to announce the winner of this year’s Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize, Daisy Gibbons, for her translation of extracts from Artem Chekh’s wartime diaries and Olha Matsiupa’s play Pilates Time. “I’m so pleased that my translations are liked enough to have won an award. But what…
Lesia Ukrainka at the British Library
On 16 November 2021, the Ukrainian Institute London, in partnership with the British Library, held an extraordinary event, discussing the work of Lesia Ukrainka. The speakers, Oksana Zabuzhko, Lucy Delap and Sasha Dovzhyk addressed what Oksana Zabuzhko called ‘a hole in European culture’ by situating the feminist and modernist writing of Lesia Ukrainka firmly in the European literary canon.
Ukrainian Literature in Translation Prize 2021
The 2021 Ukrainian Literature in Translation competition focused on works by Lesia Ukrainka to commemorate the 150th anniversary of this pioneering feminist writer. The jury, composed of Halyna Hryn, Sasha Dugdale, and Uilleam Blacker, reviewed 33 anonymised submissions. The winner of the Translation Prize is Nina Murray for her translation from Lesia Ukrainka’s drama Cassandra. Daisy Gibbons received the second prize.
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