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Weidenfeld Translation Prize

Administered by:

Dr Karen Leeder

New College

Oxford OX1 3BN

Tel: 01865 279525

Fax: 01865 279590

email: karen.leeder@new.ok.ac.uk

 

Annual

 

Awarded to the translator or translators of a work of fiction, poetry or drama written in any living European language by any author, living or dead.  The translation must be in to English and may be the work of up to three translators. 

Publisher entry only

Prize: £1,000

 

Most recent winner (2001): Edwin Morgan for his translation of Phaedra by Jean Racine (Carcanet) 

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