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Online Research Seminar: ‘Literature, History, and Translation’

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11 December 2025, 1.30-4.30pm The seminar celebrates the 50th anniversary of the foundation of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) by bringing together scholars whose interdisciplinary work offers new perspectives on literature, history, and translation. Everyone’s welcome to attend, but prior registration is required. Registration page: https://essex-university.zoom.us/meeting/register/mn3yyRG8QAW-Cp6nD1jVKg Programme: Session 1: 1.30-3pm Christopher Rundle: ‘Translation under […]

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Winners of the 2024-25 Dryden Translation Competition

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The John Dryden Translation Competition is sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation. Prizes are awarded for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English. The competition is currently hosted by the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds. For more details,

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BCLA @50 celebrations

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The BCLA turns fifty in 2025! To celebrate this important milestone, we have developed a series of events organised by colleagues at the BCLA, which will take place in 2025 and 2026. We wanted to see a wide spread of themes and coverage, and to make these events inclusive and cost-free, they are largely taking

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Cedric Van Dijck awarded BCLA First Book Prize 2025

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We are delighted to announce to the winner of the BCLA First Book Prize 2025, which honours an outstanding first monograph in the field of comparative literature. The inaugural award goes to Dr Cedric Van Dijck’s Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War (Edinburgh University Press). The jury, which included Prof. Ziad Elmarsafy, Prof.

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Engraved title page of the 1752 libretto of La Serva Padrona, performed in Paris.

Winners of the 2023-24 John Dryden Translation Competition

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Please find below the results of the 2024 competition. Many thanks to everyone who entered. The John Dryden Translation Competition is sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation. Prizes are awarded for the best unpublished literary translations from any language into English. The competition is currently hosted by the School

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Winners of 2022 John Dryden Translation Competition Now Available in Comparative Critical Studies

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The winners of the 2022 John Dryden Translation Competition have been announced, and their translations can now be read in the most recent issue of Comparative Critical Studies. The competition, which honors the memory of the 17th-century English poet and translator John Dryden, is held annually and recognizes outstanding translations of literary works from any

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Comparative Critical Studies Vol. 19.3: Postcolonial Speculative Literature

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The final issue of Comparative Critical Studies for 2022 is now available online:  Postcolonial Speculative LiteratureGuest Edited by July Blalack and Tasnim Qutait https://www.euppublishing.com/toc/ccs/19/3 Guest Editors’ Introduction: Speculative Fiction Beyond the WestTasnim Qutait  and July Blalack 19(3), pp. 281–296 Essays ‘Poison Rainbows’: The Speculative Jurisdiction of Okorafor’s LagoonTabea Wilkes19(3), pp. 299–313 ‘Uncertain Voyages of Signification’: Salvage Poetics of the CaribatopiaCathy Thomas19(3), pp. 315–340 Borders, Boundaries and

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Announcement: Winners of the BCLA John Dryden Translation Competition 2021 – 2022

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The BCLA is delighted to announce the outcome of the John Dryden Translation Competition. The John Dryden Translation Competition awards prizes for unpublished literary translations from any language into English. Literary translation includes poetry, prose, or drama from any period. AILSA WOOD AZZARO has been awarded first place for The Beatrice Monologues translated from Stefano Benni’s Italian

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