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The Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Research Centre, based at @torchoxford2013.bsky.social in the @ox.ac.uk.


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Calling young translators and teachers! Just 2 weeks left to submit to the #SSTPoetryPrize2025! Translate into English any poem from any language, or a Portuguese poem from the #PortugueseSpotlight booklet! @stephenspender.bsky.social

www.stephen-spender.org/stephen-spender-prize/
July 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
We're so excited to have three incredible Welsh and Gaelic poets coming to read their work and speak about it at Oxford Translation Day!

Remember to register!

⏰: 14 June 2025, 14:00-15:15
📍: Seminar Room 8, St Anne's College
🌐: shorturl.at/ldqYS
June 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Just 1 WEEK until we announce the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025!

🌐 Register for the prize-giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L
⏰ 14/06 @ 6:30pm
📍St Anne's College
June 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
DPhil in History, Utsa Bose's collection of translated short stories was recently published by Penguin!

Come along to his workshop on translating Bengali to learn his approach - no Bengali needed!

Register here: shorturl.at/IOzb7
June 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
We're excited to highlight the UK's linguistic diversity with #OxfordTranslationDay.

Join us to hear from three eminent poets + self-translators working in Welsh + Gaelic - Menna Elfyn, Petra Joana Poncarova, and Mererid Puw Davies.

⏰: 14/06, 2-3pm
🌐: shorturl.at/zAhy2
June 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Nervous about applying for a PhD or postdoc in translation studies?

We've gathered together 4 ECRs to talk through applications and projects - bring your questions!

⏰: 14/06, 12:30-13:30
🌐: shorturl.at/5yHL1
June 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025!

Alejandro Zambra, Childish Literature (Fitzcarraldo) (@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social) translated from the Spanish (Chile) by Megan McDowell

🌐 Register for the prize-giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L
⏰ 14/06 @ 6:30pm
📍St Anne's College
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025!

Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Your Absence is Darkness (MacLehose) translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton

🌐 Register for the prize-giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L
⏰ 14/06 @ 6:30pm
📍St Anne's College
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025!

Slobodan Šnajder, The Brass Age (Mountain Leopard) (@mountainleopard.bsky.social) translated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth

🌐 Register for the prize-giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L
⏰ 14/06 @ 6:30pm
📍St Anne's College
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025!

Krzysztof Siwczyk, A Calligraphy of Days (Seagull Books) translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk and Alice-Catherine Carls

🌐 Register for the prize-giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L
⏰ 14/06 @ 6:30pm
📍St Anne's College
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025!

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, The Silence of the Choir (Europa) (@europaeditions.bsky.social) translated from the French (Senegal) by Alison Anderson

🌐 Prize-giving registration: shorturl.at/S8R0L
⏰ 14/06 @ 6:30pm
📍St Anne's College
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025!

Adèle Rosenfeld, Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman

🌐 Register for the prize-giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L
⏰ 14/06 @ 6:30pm
📍St Anne's College
June 6, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025!

Sara Mesa, Un Amor (Peirene) translated from the Spanish by Katie Whittemore

🌐 Register for the prize-giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L
⏰ 14/06 @ 6:30pm
📍St Anne's College
June 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025!

Erminia Dell’Oro, Abandonment (Heloise) translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky

🌐 Register for the prize-giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L
⏰ 14/06 @ 6:30pm
📍St Anne's College
June 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
We are so excited to have the incredible Monica Cure at Oxford Translation Day as guest judge for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize 2025.

Register:

Prize giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L

In Conversation with Polly Barton and Monica Cure: shorturl.at/RRHoM
June 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Check out our full Oxford Translation Day Programme for June 14!

You can find more details or and the registration links for all the events at: shorturl.at/zbyby
June 5, 2025 at 3:17 PM
How do poets working in Gaelic and Welsh self-translate?

Come hear from three incredible poets: Menna Eflyn, Petra Joana Poncarova, and Mererid Puw Davies!

⏰: June 14 | 14:00
📍: Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre, St Anne's College

Register: shorturl.at/ldqYS
June 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
We're delighted to have the incredible translator and writer Polly Barton, speaking at two events on Oxford Translation Day!

Register:

Translation Workshop: tinyurl.com/a2ncuxx9

In Conversation With Monica Cure: shorturl.at/RRHoM
June 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
We are joined by Mereid Puw Davies Professor of German Studies at UCL (@uclselcs.bsky.social). In addition, Mererid is a poet and essayist in Welsh, and a Contributing Editor of the literary and cultural review O’r Pedwar Gwynt.

Register here: shorturl.at/ldqYS
June 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
We are joined by Petra Joana Poncarova, Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Glasgow. In 2025, she received a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust (@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social) and the Gaelic Books Council (@leughleabhar.bsky.social).

Register here: shorturl.at/ldqYS
June 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
We are joined by Menna Elfyn, award-winning Welsh poet and playwright. She's President of Wales PEN Cymru, first woman Professor of Poetry in Wales, Professor Emerita at University Wales Trinity Saint David, and Welsh Children’s Poet Laureate (2002).

Register here: shorturl.at/ldqYS
June 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Join us to hear from two multi award-winning translators and writers - Polly Barton and Monica Cure.

Register to attend: shorturl.at/RRHoM
June 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
DPhil in History, Utsa Bose's collection of translated short stories was recently published by Penguin!

Come along to his workshop on translating Bengali to learn his approach - no Bengali needed!

Register here: shorturl.at/IOzb7
June 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
We are joined by Mary Katherine Newman, incoming Quirk Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies, University College London.

Register here: shorturl.at/5yHL1
June 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
We are joined by Aoife Cantrill, Laming Junior Research Fellow at Queen’s College, University of Oxford.

Register here: shorturl.at/5yHL1
June 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM