Sasha Dugdale

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

Sasha Dugdale

 FRSL
Born1974 (age 46–47)
Sussex, England
OccupationPoet, playwright, translator
Alma materThe Queen's College, Oxford
Notable worksJoy
Deformations
Notable awardsForward Prize
Cholmondeley Award

Biography

Sasha Dugdale was born in 1974[1] in Sussex.[2]

Between 1995 and 2000, Dugdale worked for the British Council in Russia.[2]

Dugdale has published five poetry collections with Carcanet Press: 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.[2]

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.[3] In 2020, she won an English PEN Translate Award for her translation of a collection of poetry by the Russian poet Maria Stepanova.[4]

From 2012 to 2017 Dugdale was the editor of Modern Poetry in Translation, editing and publishing sixteen issues of the magazine as well as its fiftieth year anniversary anthology Centres of Cataclysm (Bloodaxe, 2016). Dugdale is co-director of the biennial Winchester Poetry Festival.[5]

Publications

Poetry
  • (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

Awards

References
  1. "Sasha Dugdale". Forward Arts Foundation. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  2. "Sasha Dugdale". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  3. "We're all Translators: Interview with Sasha Dugdale". Huffington Post. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  4. Nineteen PEN Translates awards go to titles from fifteen countries and thirteen languages. English PEN, 10 June 2020
  5. "Sasha Dugdale". Carcanet Press. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
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