Sasha Dugdale
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Sasha Dugdale FRSL is a British poet, playwright, editor and translator. She has written six poetry collections and is a translator of Russian literature.
Biography
Sasha Dugdale was born in 1974{{cite web |title=Sasha Dugdale |url=http://www.forwardartsfoundation.org/poet/sasha-dugdale/ |website=Forward Arts Foundation |accessdate=10 September 2018}} in Sussex.{{cite web |title=Sasha Dugdale |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sasha-dugdale |website=The Poetry Foundation |accessdate=10 September 2018}}
Dugdale has published six poetry collections with Carcanet Press: Notebook (2003), The Estate (2007), Red House (2011), Joy (2017), Deformations (2020) and The Strongbox (2024). She won the 2016 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem, entitled Joy, and a Cholmondeley Award in 2017.
Dugdale specialises in translating contemporary Russian women poets and post-Soviet new writing for theatre. She has worked both in the United Kingdom and the United States on a number of productions, translating modern Russian plays.{{cite web |title=We're all Translators: Interview with Sasha Dugdale |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/were-all-translators-interview-with-sasha-dugdale_us_5913694ae4b04e66b8c3ad7f |website=Huffington Post |date=24 September 2017 |accessdate=10 September 2018}} She won English PEN Translates Awards for her translations of collections of poetry by the Russian poet Maria Stepanova.[https://www .englishpen.org/press/pen-translates-awards-june-2020 Nineteen PEN Translates awards go to titles from fifteen countries and thirteen languages. English PEN, 10 June 2020]
From 2012 to 2017 Dugdale was the editor of Modern Poetry in Translation, publishing sixteen issues of the magazine as well as its fiftieth year anniversary anthology Centres of Cataclysm (Bloodaxe, 2016). From 2015 to 2021 Dugdale directed the biennial Winchester Poetry Festival.{{cite web | url=https://www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/post/clare-pollard-appointed-as-artistic-director | title=Clare Pollard appointed as Artistic Director | date=10 January 2022 }} Dugdale was poet-in-residence at St John’s College, Cambridge between 2018 and 2021.
Dugdale's poetry has been featured in the Guardian{{cite web |title=Poem of the week: Shepherds by Sasha Dugdale (Carol Rumens, in: The Guardian) |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/jan/14/poem-of-the-week-sasha-dugdale |website=Guardian }} and her translation of Maria Stepanova's novel In Memory of Memory was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, the 2022 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, the 2022 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and in 2021 was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature.{{cite web |title= Sasha Dugdale translation shortlisted for Booker |url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/in-memory-of-memory |website=Booker Prizes |url-status=live |archive-url=
https://web.archive.org/web/20230620170958/https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/in-memory-of-memory |archive-date=20 June 2023}}
Dugdale won the MLA Lois Roth Award for her translation, the judges’ citation noted that: "Sasha Dugdale’s translation is a living text, the work of a poet, as attuned to the modernist voices of Mandelstam and Akhmatova as to those of Sebald and Barthes, flowing with admirable rhythm and a stunning breadth of vocabulary. In Dugdale’s hands, sentence after sentence is quotable, the shadows of the irretrievable past rippling through a complex, many-layered landscape."{{cite web |title= MLA Lois Roth Award - Judges Citation |url=https://www.mla.org/content/download/190866/file/LRA-Lois-Roth-Award-Press-Release-2022.pdf}}
Publications
=Poetry=
- (2024), The Strongbox, Carcanet Press, {{ISBN|9781800174085}}
- (2020), Deformations, Carcanet Press, {{ISBN|9781784108984}}
- (2017), Joy, Carcanet Press, {{ISBN|9781784105037}}
- (2011), Red House, Oxford Poets, {{ISBN|9781906188023}}
- (2007), The Estate, Oxford Poets, {{ISBN|9781903039809}}
- (2003), Notebook, Oxford Poets, {{ISBN| 9781903039670}}
=Translations=
- (2024), Maria Stepanova, Holy Winter 20/21, Bloodaxe, {{ISBN|9781780376950}}
- (2021), Maria Stepanova, The War of the Beasts and the Animals, Bloodaxe, {{ISBN|9781780375342}}
- (2021), Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory, Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK), {{ISBN|9781913097530}}, New Directions (US), {{ISBN|9780811228831}}
- (2017), Natalya Vorozhbyt, Bad Roads, Nick Hern Books, {{ISBN|9781848427143}}
- (2009), Natalya Vorozhbyt, The Grainstore, Nick Hern Books, {{ISBN|9781848420458}}
- (2008), Elena Shvarts, Birdsong on the Seabed, Bloodaxe, {{ISBN|9781852247836}}
- (2004), Vasily Sigarev, Ladybird, Nick Hern Books
- (2004), Tatiana Shcherbina, Life Without: Selected Poetry & Prose 1992-2003, Bloodaxe, {{ISBN|9781852246426}}
- (2003), The Presnyakov Brothers, Terrorism, Nick Hern Books
- (2003), The Presnyakov Brothers, Playing the Victim, Nick Hern Books, {{ISBN|9781854597595}}
- (2003), Vasily Sigarev, Black Milk, Nick Hern Books
- (2002), Vasily Sigarev, Plasticine, Nick Hern Books, {{ISBN|9781854596901}}
Awards
- — (2022), Lois Roth Award, In Memory of Memory{{Cite web |title=Lois Roth Award for a Translation of a Literary Work Winners |url=https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Grants-and-Awards/Winners-of-MLA-Prizes/Biennial-Prize-and-Award-Winners/Lois-Roth-Award-for-a-Translation-of-a-Literary-Work-Winners |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=Modern Language Association |language=en}}
- — (2020), T. S. Eliot Prize, Deformations, (shortlist)
- — (2017), Cholmondeley Award{{cite web |title=Sasha Dugdale |url=https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=182 |website=Carcanet Press |accessdate=10 September 2018}}
- — (2017), Poetry Book Society Choice - Joy
- — (2016), Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem, Joy
- — (2003), Eric Gregory Award
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