Sasha Dugdale

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is a British poet, playwright and translator. She has written five poetry collections and is a translator of Russian literature.

Biography

Sasha Dugdale was born in 1974 in

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English ...

. Between 1995 and 2000, Dugdale worked for the British Council in Russia. Dugdale has published five poetry collections with

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: ''Notebook'' (2003), ''The Estate'' (2007), ''Red House'' (2011), ''Joy'' (2017) and ''Deformations'' (2020). She won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem, ''Joy'' in 2016 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. In 2020, she won an English PEN Translate Award for her translation of a collection of poetry by the Russian poet Maria Stepanova. From 2012 to 2017 Dugdale was the editor of ''

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'', editing and 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. 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 The National Book Award for Translated Literature is one of five annual National Book Awards recognising outstanding literary works of translation into English administered by the National Book Foundation. This award was previously given from 1967 ...

Publications

Poetry

*(2020), ''Deformations'',

, *(2017), ''Joy'',

, *(2011), ''Red House'',

Oxford Poets Oxford Poets is an imprint of the British poetry publisher Carcanet Press. The imprint was established in March 1999 when the founder and editor of Carcanet Press, Michael Schmidt, acquired the Oxford University Press poetry list. OUP's auth ...

, *(2007), ''The Estate'',

, *(2003), ''Notebook'',

Translations

*(2021), Maria Stepanova, ''The War of the Beasts and the Animals'', Bloodaxe, *(2021), Maria Stepanova, ''In Memory of Memory'',

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(UK), , New Directions (US), *(2017), Natalya Vorozhbit, ''Bad Roads'', Nick Hern Books, *(2009), Natalya Vorozhbit, ''The Grainstore'', Nick Hern Books, *(2008),

Elena Shvarts Elena Andreyevna Shvarts (russian: Елена Андреевна Шварц) (17 May 1948 – 11 March 2010) was a Russian poet. Born in Leningrad, where she lived her entire life, Shvarts attended the University of Tartu, where her first poems w ...

, ''Birdsong on the Seabed'', Bloodaxe, *(2004),

Vasily Sigarev Vassily Vladimirovich Sigarev (russian: Васи́лий Владимирович Си́гарев, born 11 January 1977, Verkhnyaya Salda, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union) is a Russian playwright, screenwriter and film director. His plays ''Plas ...

, ''Ladybird'', Nick Hern Books *(2004), Tatiana Shcherbina, ''Life Without: Selected Poetry & Prose 1992-2003'', Bloodaxe, *(2003),

The Presnyakov Brothers The Presnyakov Brothers, Oleg and Vladmimir, are writers, playwrights, screenwriters, directors, theatre producers, and actor. The sons of an Iranian mother and a Russian father, Oleg was born in 1969 and Vladimir in 1974. Both brothers graduat ...

, ''Terrorism'', Nick Hern Books *(2003),

, ''Playing the Victim'', Nick Hern Books, *(2003),

, ''Black Milk'', Nick Hern Books *(2002),

, ''Plasticine'', Nick Hern Books,

Awards

*— (2020),

T. S. Eliot Prize The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is a prize that was, for many years, awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to "the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland" in any particular year. The Priz ...

, ''Deformations'', (shortlist) *— (2017), Cholmondeley Award *— (2017), Poetry Book Society Choice - ''Joy'' *— (2016), Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem, ''Joy'' *— (2003),

Eric Gregory Award The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by British poets under the age of 30. The award was founded in 1960 by Dr. Eric Gregory to support and encourage young poets. In 2021, the seven ...

References

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