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Stephen Spender prize – a judges’s perspective

Edit The Guardian 07 Nov 2015
Allen Prowle’s translations of Dutch poet Rutger Kopland’s ‘Johnson Brothers Ltd’ was chosen from 299 entries spanning 46 languages to win this year’s Open category. Translation is an act of close reading ... Martin Bennett’s fine version of Guido Gozzano’s entomological “Acherontia Atropos” came third ... Maud Mullan’s elegant “A Lament at the Door” by the Ancient Greek poet Callimachus was awarded third prize ... ....

Faculty publishes translations of rare classical texts (Grand Valley State University)

Edit noodls 27 Mar 2015
(Source. Grand Valley State University). Diane Rayor, professor of classics, poses with a bench in New York City depicting a piece of translated Sappho text from her book "Sappho. A New Translation of the Complete Works." ... Diane Rayor's "Sappho. A New Translation of the Complete Works" translates all of the works of Sappho ... "Sappho ... Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece," and "Callimachus."....

10 lost literary works to rival Harper Lee's 'Mockingbird' sequel

Edit Mashable 04 Feb 2015
The tome, a sequel of sorts (from which Mockingbird itself originally sprang) be published this year ... SEE ALSO. Harper Lee to publish 'To Kill a Mockingbird' sequel, decades later ... Most known notable "lost works" belong to Greek and Roman guys with names like Anaximander and Callimachus and Anacreon, and that's not to mention the thousands of Chinese and Hindu religious and historical texts scattered to the wind ... Image ... Image ... Mark Twain ... ....
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