Diana Anphimiadi longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2022
'... this is gorgeous, fabulising verse.' - Fiona Sampson, The Guardian, best recent poetry, on Why I No Longer Write Poems
Georgian poet Diana Anphimiadi and her translators Natalia Bukia-Peters and Jean Sprackland were longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2022 for Why I No Longer Write Poems, a dual language selection co-published by Bloodaxe Books and the Poetry Translation Centre.
This first full-length selection of Diana Anphimiadi’s poetry in English draws on her four collections in Georgian. Her award-winning work glides between classical allusions and surreal imagery – it is witty, shocking and surprising, at once ancient and modern.
Fourteen titles were longlisted for the sixth annual award of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation.
The £1000 prize was established by the University of Warwick in 2017 to address the gender imbalance in translated literature and to increase the number of international women’s voices accessible by a British and Irish readership. This year’s longlist includes Argentinian and Georgian poetry, Japanese short stories and novels from Argentina, Catalonia, India and Syria.
The prize is judged by Amanda Hopkinson, Boyd Tonkin and Susan Bassnett. The judges said of the 2022 longlist:
“Our longlist this year showcases the enormous range and strength of translated writing by women from around the world. It covers not only a huge span of languages and cultures, from Hindi to Catalan, Arabic to Japanese, but a spectrum of genres that runs from supernatural stories to sensual verse, historical epic to micro-biological investigation. Some are relayed through multiple alternating voices; others by protagonists who reveal disquieting and haunting inner worlds of dreams, amnesia or elective silence. Fiction long and short, poetry, oral history and scientific narrative all find a place in this feast of literary creativity.
More than ever, this year's Warwick Prize for Women in Translation longlist defies any assumption that globalisation spells convergence with its exciting and often startling choice of literary diversity at the cutting edge of genre-bending experimentation and innovation.”
The shortlist for the prize was announced on 14 November. The winner will be announced at a ceremony at The Shard in London on Thursday 24 November 2022.
Full details are on the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation website here.
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For reviews, poem features and interviews with Diana Anphimiadi, see https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid=1223.
For review copies of Why I No Longer Write Poems, please contact Christine Macgregor at Bloodaxe Books: publicity@bloodaxebooks.com.
[31 October 2022]
