{"id":6167,"date":"2016-06-17T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T12:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=6167"},"modified":"2016-06-17T13:08:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T12:08:34","slug":"secl-graduate-wins-translation-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/06\/17\/secl-graduate-wins-translation-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"SECL graduate wins translation challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Cortes-Allsopp, a graduate of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/undergraduate\/french\/italian-and-french.html\">BA (Hons) in Italian and French<\/a>, has won a prestigious <a href=\"http:\/\/waleslitexchange.org\/en\/translators-house-wales\/activities\/translation-challenge\/\">Translation Challenge<\/a> and collected her prize money of \u00a3250 at the Hay Festival on Saturday 28 May.<\/p>\n<p>The Translation Challenge was established by Translators\u2019 House Wales in 2009 to promote and celebrate the crucial contribution translators make to enabling literature to travel across frontiers and to draw attention to literary translation as a creative art. It is organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/walespencymru.org\/\">Wales PEN Cymru<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/waleslitexchange.org\/\">Wales Literature Exchange<\/a> and sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swansea.ac.uk\/artsandhumanities\/\">Swansea University\u2019s College of Arts and Humanities<\/a>. This year\u2019s competition was to translate a poem by Mexican Poet Pedro Serrano from Spanish into either English or Welsh. Jessica is this year\u2019s English Language winner.<\/p>\n<p>In his adjudication Richard Gwyn, writer, academic and world-traveller, praised Jessica&#8217;s \u2018tight and accurate translation, consistently reproducing the complexities of Serrano\u2019s language better than other entrants, and maintaining a rhythm that measures up against that of the original.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Jessica graduated in 2015 and is due to start an MA in Translation at UCL in September. She said \u2018It is an honour to have been named the winner of this challenge, it is hugely encouraging considering translation is what I enjoyed most about my undergraduate degree and\u00a0has also\u00a0given me great confidence in my decision to pursue\u00a0it at postgraduate level. I would\u00a0especially like to\u00a0thank the French and Italian\u00a0departments at the University of\u00a0Kent for their continued support and for helping me to develop my passion for translation and language learning.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>For more details on the Translation Challenge, please see the Wales Literature Exchange page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/waleslitexchange.org\/en\/translators-house-wales\/activities\/translation-challenge\/\">http:\/\/waleslitexchange.org\/en\/translators-house-wales\/activities\/translation-challenge\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Cortes-Allsopp, a graduate of the BA (Hons) in Italian and French, has won a prestigious Translation Challenge and collected her prize money of \u00a3250 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2016\/06\/17\/secl-graduate-wins-translation-challenge\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":6169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6191,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6167\/revisions\/6191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}