Matthew Reynolds

On Judging the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize

The Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, funded by Lord Weidenfeld and by New College, The Queens College, and St Annes College in Oxford, is awarded annually. It is judged by a panel of three Oxford acadamics and/or translators, plus a guest judge from the wider literary world. The 2007 shortlist consisted of modern novels from France, Austria, and Norway; the selected poems of a contemporary German poet; three volumes of the writings of a Swiss dramatist, essayist, and story-writer; and a parallel-text version of Dante. The field of eligible books published during 2006 had of course been far larger, and was also wider-ranging, for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize is for Englishings of prose fiction, poetry, and drama from living European languages. I have been a judge for the last four years now, and each time, when faced with the pile of eighty-odd entries, the multiple source languages (a few known to me, most not), the gamut of genres – from crime fiction and chick lit through Dumas (say) to...

Multilingual Bibliography of New Work in Comparative Literature in Europe 2007-2014

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Introduction to New Work in Comparative Literature in Europe

Introduction to CLCWeb Special Issue 15.7 (2013), New Work in Comparative Literature in Europe