Holly Langstaff
@hollylangstaff.bsky.social
Lecturer in French at the University of Oxford.
I run the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and Bristol Translates Summer School.
I run the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and Bristol Translates Summer School.
Thanks so much :)
January 30, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Thanks so much :)
Reposted by Holly Langstaff
And there is a special mention: Kairos, by Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. by Michael Hofmann (Granta).
“Michael Hofmann’s taut, vivid and agile translation does eloquent justice to the inner and outer worlds of characters locked into private, and public, histories of doomed desires and broken dreams.”
“Michael Hofmann’s taut, vivid and agile translation does eloquent justice to the inner and outer worlds of characters locked into private, and public, histories of doomed desires and broken dreams.”
November 22, 2024 at 1:02 PM
And there is a special mention: Kairos, by Jenny Erpenbeck, trans. by Michael Hofmann (Granta).
“Michael Hofmann’s taut, vivid and agile translation does eloquent justice to the inner and outer worlds of characters locked into private, and public, histories of doomed desires and broken dreams.”
“Michael Hofmann’s taut, vivid and agile translation does eloquent justice to the inner and outer worlds of characters locked into private, and public, histories of doomed desires and broken dreams.”
Reposted by Holly Langstaff
This is the first time that a poetry collection has won the prize. The judges commented: “This volume is an epic achievement: it wrests a visionary language, where tragedy and transcendence meet, from the darkest places of 20th-century experience.”
Read the announcement in full tinyurl.com/hebuubv3
Read the announcement in full tinyurl.com/hebuubv3
Winner 2024
tinyurl.com
November 22, 2024 at 12:52 PM
This is the first time that a poetry collection has won the prize. The judges commented: “This volume is an epic achievement: it wrests a visionary language, where tragedy and transcendence meet, from the darkest places of 20th-century experience.”
Read the announcement in full tinyurl.com/hebuubv3
Read the announcement in full tinyurl.com/hebuubv3
I’m going to show my undergrad students this thread. So helpful for them to hear this!
October 24, 2023 at 1:43 PM
I’m going to show my undergrad students this thread. So helpful for them to hear this!