Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators from Queen's Translation Exchange,
University of Oxford
The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators is a UK-wide creative translation competition for students aged 11-18 studying French, German, Italian, Mandarin and Spanish. The competition also runs from French into Welsh.
The 2023-24 prize will launch on 20 September, when creative translation teaching packs will be shared with teachers in time for European Day of Languages on 26 September and International Translation Day on 30 September. These teaching packs are designed to help teachers bring creative translation into the MFL classroom as well as to help students prepare for the competition task.
The competition itself will run over several weeks from 5 February to 28 March 2024. Area and national winners will be announced in May or June 2023. They will receive certificates and national winners will receive book prizes. Over 15,000 students participated in the competition in 2023: see the list of winners and commendations in 2023.
For those registered, teaching packs for poetry translation will be circulated on 20 September, fiction will follow after October half term, and non-fiction will be released in early January. Register to receive these resources and for updates about the competition task here.
There are a number of related activities run by the Queen's Translation Exchange that teachers and pupils can participate in, details of which can be found here.
If you have any queries regarding the competition, you should contact the Translation Exchange team at [email protected].
Queen's College Translation Exchange
Queen's College, Oxford
OX1 4AW
[email protected]
https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/translation-exchange
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