Judith Wilkinson

{{Short description|British poet and translator}} {{BLP sources|date=July 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Judith Wilkinson | image = | occupation = Poet, translator | website = {{URL|www.judithwilkinson.net}} }} '''Judith Wilkinson''' is a British poet and translator, living in Groningen, the Netherlands. She is known for her translations of Dutch and Flemish poetry into English. She has translated the works of Toon Tellegen, Miriam Van hee, Menno Wigman and Hagar Peeters.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Judith Wilkinson |publisher=The Poetry Society |url=https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/judith-wilkinson/|access-date=8 July 2023 }}<br>- {{Cite news |title=Judith Wilkinson wins The 2011 Corneliu M Popescu Prize for Poetry Translation |publisher=The Romanian Cultural Centre London |date=7 December 2011 |url=http://www.romanianculturalcentre.org.uk/foundation/judith-wilkinson-wins-the-2011-corneliu-m-popescu-prize-for/?&v=1|access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref>

== Awards and honours == * 2007: Runner-up David Reid Poetry Translation Prize<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Reid Poetry Translation Prize :: De tuinman en de dood |url=http://subtexttranslations.com/drptp/eyck/eyck.html |access-date=8 July 2023 |publisher=Subtext Translations}}</ref> * 2007: Poetry Book Society Recommendation for ''Instead of Silence'' by Miriam Van hee.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Instead of Silence |url=http://www.shoestring-press.com/2009/09/instead-of-silence/ |publisher=Shoestring Press |access-date=2020-10-13}}{{dead link|date=July 2023}}</ref> * 2008: First prize David Reid Poetry Translation Prize.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Reid Poetry Translation Prize :: De Dapperstraat |url=http://subtexttranslations.com/drptp/bloem/bloem.html |access-date=8 July 2023 |publisher=Subtext Translations}}</ref> * 2009: Runner-up David Reid Poetry Translation Prize.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Reid Poetry Translation Prize :: De moeder de vrouw |url=http://subtexttranslations.com/drptp/nijhoff/nijhoff.html |access-date=8 July 2023 |publisher=Subtext Translations}}</ref> * 2011: Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation for ''Raptors'' by Toon Tellegen.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Crown|first=Sarah |date=2011-09-05 |title=Popescu prize shortlist announced |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/sep/05/popescu-prize-shortlist-announced |access-date=2020-10-16 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> * 2013: Brockway Prize.<ref>{{Cite press release|title= Brockway Prize for Judith Wilkinson |date=4 June 2013 |publisher=Nederlands Letterenfonds |url=http://www.letterenfonds.nl/en/entry/318/brockway-prize-for-judith-wilkinson|access-date=8 July 2023}}</ref> * 2019: Pushcart Prize, nominated by ''The Manhattan Review'' * 2021: Menno Wigman, ''The World by Evening'', longlisted for the Vondel Prize

== Poetry collections == * Judith Wilkinson, ''Tightrope Dancer'', Shoestring Press 2010 * Judith Wilkinson, ''Canyon Journey'', with artwork by Ditty Doornbos, Shoestring Press 2016 * Judith Wilkinson, ''In Desert'', Shoestring Press 2021

== Translated titles ==

* Miriam Van hee, ''Instead of Silence'', Shoestring Press 2007 * Toon Tellegen, ''About Love and About Nothing Else'', Shoestring Press 2008 * Toon Tellegen, ''Raptors'', Carcanet Press 2011 * Toon Tellegen, ''A Man and an Angel'', Shoestring Press 2013 * Hagar Peeters, ''City of Sandcastles'', Shoestring Press 2018 * Toon Tellegen, ''Under a Giant Sky'', Selected Poems, Shoestring Press 2019 * Maya Wuytack, ''Nothing Chronic (Except Love)'', WA Poets Inc 2019 * Menno Wigman, ''The World by Evening'', Shearsman Press, 2020 * Hanny Michaelis, ''In an Unguarded Moment, Selected Poems,'' Shoestring Press 2022 * Toon Tellegen, ''A Slippery Slope'', Shoestring Press 2023 * Miriam Van hee, ''Sediment of Light, Selected Poems'', Shoestring Press 2025

== Poetry performed == The Kosh, ''Just Below the Surface'', poetry by Judith Wilkinson, 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Performance |url=http://www.thekosh.com/performance.html |access-date=8 July 2023 |website=The Kosh }}</ref>

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