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Mariusz Szczygieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones with Linden Editions Tickets, Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite Eventbrite - Comparative.Criticism@st-annes.ox.ac.uk presents Mariusz Szczygieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones with Linden Editions - Friday, February 27, 2026 at St Anne's College, Seminar Room 10. Find event and ticket information.

OCCT and @@lindeneditions.bsky.social are delighted to welcome Mariusz Szczygieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones to Oxford in conversation about Szczygieł’s new work, Not There. With a drinks reception!

🗓️ 27 Feb 5-6:30pm
📍 Seminar Room 10, St Anne's College

Register to attend:

03.02.2026 15:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Mariusz Szczygieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones with Linden Editions Tickets, Fri, Feb 27, 2026 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite Eventbrite - Comparative.Criticism@st-annes.ox.ac.uk presents Mariusz Szczygieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones with Linden Editions - Friday, February 27, 2026 at St Anne's College, Seminar Room 10. Find event and ticket information.

OCCT and @@lindeneditions.bsky.social are delighted to welcome Mariusz Szczygieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones to Oxford in conversation about Szczygieł’s new work, Not There. With a drinks reception!

🗓️ 27 Feb 5-6:30pm
📍 Seminar Room 10, St Anne's College

Register to attend:

02.02.2026 16:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators

Are you a risk taker? A problem solver?
A critical thinker? A creative writer?

Take part in the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators, a national translation competition for secondary school students aged 11-18.

Monday 2 February - Friday 27 March
Winners announced in June 2026

Translate poetry, fiction and non-fiction from:
- French (into English and Welsh)
- German
- Italian
- Mandarin
- Russian (including beginners')
- Spanish

Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators Are you a risk taker? A problem solver? A critical thinker? A creative writer? Take part in the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators, a national translation competition for secondary school students aged 11-18. Monday 2 February - Friday 27 March Winners announced in June 2026 Translate poetry, fiction and non-fiction from: - French (into English and Welsh) - German - Italian - Mandarin - Russian (including beginners') - Spanish

The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators launches TWO WEEKS TODAY!​ Our national competition will open for entries on Monday 2 February, when students aged 11-18 will have the opportunity to translate poetry, fiction and non-fiction from French, German, Italian, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish 📝

19.01.2026 15:31 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
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Join us to celebrate a new translation of A Doll’s House, Men of Honour & When We Dead Awaken, tracing the dialogue between Henrik Ibsen and Laura Kieler.

🗓 19 Jan | 5-7pm
📍 Seminar Room 8, St Anne’s College
🥂 Drinks reception

#BookLaunch #TranslationStudies #WomenWriters

14.01.2026 20:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Join us to celebrate a new translation of A Doll’s House, Men of Honour & When We Dead Awaken, tracing the dialogue between Henrik Ibsen and Laura Kieler.

🗓 19 Jan | 5-7pm
📍 Seminar Room 8, St Anne’s College
🥂 Drinks reception

#BookLaunch #TranslationStudies #WomenWriters

09.01.2026 16:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We are offering up to 10 studentships for PhD students to attend the conference. They must be based in the UK and not at Oxford. It will cover a one-night stay at St John's College and conference dinner on the 11th of September and a small contribution towards local travel.

13.08.2025 08:44 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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International Conference: Comparative Literature and Decoloniality Reimagining comparative literature through the lens of decoloniality, 11-12 September 2026, St John's College, University of Oxford

Tickets available for International Conference: Comparative Literature and Decoloniality (September 11-12, Oxford).

A collab with the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), sponsored by @britishacademy.bsky.social, @stjohnsox.bsky.social, OCCT, and the BCLA.

shorturl.at/AdoHA

13.08.2025 08:44 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

We are offering up to 10 studentships for PhD students to attend the conference. They must be based in the UK and not at Oxford. It will cover a one-night stay at St John's College and conference dinner on the 11th of September and a small contribution towards local travel.

12.08.2025 19:35 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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International Conference: Comparative Literature and Decoloniality Reimagining comparative literature through the lens of decoloniality, 11-12 September 2026, St John's College, University of Oxford

Tickets available for International Conference: Comparative Literature and Decoloniality (Sep 11-12, Oxford).

A collab with the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), sponsored by @britishacademy.bsky.social, @stjohnsox.bsky.social, OCCT, and the BCLA.

shorturl.at/AdoHA

12.08.2025 19:35 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

We are offering up to 10 studentships for PhD students to attend the conference. They must be based in the UK and not at Oxford. It will cover a one-night stay at St John's College and conference dinner on the 11th of September and a small contribution towards local travel.

11.08.2025 21:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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International Conference: Comparative Literature and Decoloniality Reimagining comparative literature through the lens of decoloniality, 11-12 September 2026, St John's College, University of Oxford

Tickets available for International Conference: Comparative Literature and Decoloniality (Sep 11-12, Oxford).

A collab with the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), sponsored by @britishacademy.bsky.social, @stjohnsox.bsky.social, OCCT, and the BCLA.

shorturl.at/AdoHA

11.08.2025 21:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Reminder that the deadline for the Stephen Spender Translation Prize is 31 July - find out more and get your entries in at stephen-spender.org/stephen-spender-prize

Open to pupils & teachers in UK & Ireland schools! You can enter in any language

#SSTPoetryPrize2025

14.07.2025 14:15 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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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/

14.07.2025 13:53 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We have launched an Instagram!

Follow us at: www.instagram.com/oc...

18.06.2025 10:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh my gosh!!! 🪼💙🪼💙🪼💙!!!

15.06.2025 11:30 👍 77 🔁 10 💬 20 📌 2

Thank you so much for coming! Hope you feel better soon!

16.06.2025 12:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All the 8 shortlisted titles spread out on a table

All the 8 shortlisted titles spread out on a table

Slowly getting ready to announce the Oxford-Weidenfeld translation prize @oxfordcct.bsky.social. Minna Jeffrey, Thom Murphy, @acantrill.bsky.social, and I had our work cut out for us!

14.06.2025 13:23 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

🪼🪼🪼 I love this book so much!! Felicitations @jmz.bsky.social 🙌🏻

15.06.2025 13:44 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize 2025 is

Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Jellyfish Have No Ears (MacLehose) by Adèle Rosenfeld.

Many congratulations to to all the short- and longlisted translators!



15.06.2025 10:13 👍 23 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 6
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"This is Why": Translators on Translating, Editors on Editing Join acclaimed translators and editors to hear more about their practices and choices in translation.

In 48 hrs we announce the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize!

Attend the prize-giving and an exclusive panel with some of the shortlisted translators and their editors on Saturday 14 June!

Panel: shorturl.at/wN6Pr
Prize-giving: shorturl.at/S8R0L

12.06.2025 17:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Between Tongues: Poetry and Self-Translation in Celtic Languages This roundtable brings together three contemporary poets who write and translate their own work in Welsh and Scottish Gaelic.

We're delighted to showcase 3 poets and self-translators working in Welsh and Gaelic to Oxford Translation Day!

Join us to hear from Menna Elfyn, Petra Joana Poncarova, and Mererid Puw Davies

⏰: 14 Jun., 14-15:15
📍: Seminar Rm. 8, St Anne's College
🌐: shorturl.at/L2sgQ

12.06.2025 10:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

11.06.2025 06:00 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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"The One Who Has Arrived Late": Bengali Translation workshop with Utsa Bose Collaboratively translate a Bengali poem into English. No knowledge of Bengali is required.

Have you ever wanted to try translating a language you don't know?

Give Utsa Bose's Bengali translation workshop a go - no Bengali required!

⏰: 14 June 2025, 09:30-10:45
📍: Seminar Room 7, St Anne's College
🌐: shorturl.at/IOzb7

10.06.2025 20:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"The One Who Has Arrived Late": Bengali Translation workshop with Utsa Bose Collaboratively translate a Bengali poem into English. No knowledge of Bengali is required.

Have you ever wanted to try translating a language you don't know?

Give Utsa Bose's Bengali translation workshop a go - no Bengali required!

⏰: 14 June 2025, 09:30-10:45
📍: Seminar Room 7, St Anne's College
🌐: shorturl.at/IOzb7

10.06.2025 20:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

07.06.2025 07:30 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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

07.06.2025 07:30 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

#xl8

06.06.2025 18:42 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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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

06.06.2025 17:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

06.06.2025 13:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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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

06.06.2025 09:12 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0