{"id":16,"date":"2024-10-31T16:13:39","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/sasha-dugdale\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T09:19:37","slug":"sasha-dugdale","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/sasha-dugdale\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasha Dugdale"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. She has published six collections with Carcanet Press; her most recent, <em>The Strongbox<\/em> (2024), won the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025. Her previous collection <em>Deformations<\/em> was shortlisted for the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize and Derek Walcott Prize. <em>Joy<\/em> (2017) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and the title poem was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2016. Her translations for theatre include <em>Bad Roads<\/em> by Ukrainian Natalya Vorozhbit, produced by the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 2017; and <em>The Grainstore<\/em> by Natalya Vorozhbit (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2009). She has published numerous translations of Russian-language women\u2019s writing. Her translation of Maria Stepanova&#8217;s <em>War of the Beasts and the Animals<\/em> (Bloodaxe Books, 2021) was a Poetry Book Society Translation Choice and was shortlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2021. Her translation of Stepanova\u2019s novel <em>In Memory of Memory <\/em>(Fitzcarraldo, 2021), was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Weidenfeld Prize, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Dugdale won the MLA Lois Roth Award for this translation. Her translation of Stepanova&#8217;s book-length poem <em>Holy Winter 20\/21<\/em> (Bloodaxe Books) was a Poetry Book Society Translation Choice for Spring 2024, and was longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024. She is former editor of <em>Modern Poetry in Translation<\/em> and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. She has published six collections with Carcanet Press; her most recent, The Strongbox (2024), won the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025. Her previous collection Deformations was shortlisted for the 2020 T. S. Eliot Prize and Derek Walcott Prize. Joy (2017) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":163,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-16","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}