Iain Gallbraith and Jan Wagner who have worked with Mediaiting Modern Poetry several times over the last few years were awarded the Schlegel Tieck Prize of the Society of Authors 2017 at the award ceremony at the British Library.
This was trhe fifty-second Schlegel-Tieck Prize for translation from German, which was judged by Emily Jeremiah and James Jordan. The winner of the prize is Iain Galbraith, for his translation of Self-Portrait with a Swarm of Bees by Jan Wagner (Arc Publications). Emily Jeremiah said:
‘This is an inventive, ingenious collection of poems in German and English – absolutely exhilarating!’
Anthea Bell was commended for her translation of All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski (Granta).
To hear the ceremony and see the full list of awards see here