Congratulations to Sue Wicks, a member and committee member of our society. She is this year’s winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her translation of Valérie Rouzeau’s Talking Vrouz (Arc publications).
The judges said:
Talking Vrouz is a wonderfully inventive and yet faithful translation of poems which are already at an oblique angle to their own language (French). Susan Wicks renders a unique poetic voice, with all its eccentricities and privacies, into a matching English. The translation is exact, inventive and full of life, and offers readers something new and startling in English poetry.
The Prize was awarded at an event at St Anne’s College, Oxford, at which the shortlisted translators read from and discussed their work. This was the crowning event of Oxford Translation Day, a festival of talks, readings and workshops staged in collaboration with Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation, English PEN, the Poetry Translation Centre, the Oxford German Network, the East Oxford Community Classics Centre and the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities.
This year’s judges of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize are the academics and writers Jonathan Katz, Adriana Jacobs, Patrick McGuinness and Matthew Reynolds (Chair).
The Kent & Sussex Poetry Society 