19 February 2020
The Translation Challenge and Her Gyfieithu were established in 2009 in order to promote and celebrate the crucial contribution that translators make to enabling literature to travel across frontiers. Through the work of literary translators, authors and poets can reach new audiences as well as internationalize their careers. The prizes are also a celebration of literary translation as a creative art and they aim to encourage new and emerging literary translators.
This year, the poem to translate for both competitions is a series of short poems titled ‘Nahaufnahmen’ by contemporary poet of Turkish descent who writes in German, Zafer Şenocak.
Closing date: 22 May 2020
Adjudicator: Karen Leeder
Prize: £200
Details on how to compete can be found on Wales PEN Cymru website.