Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation

Two books of Galician poetry in English translation are among the 73 titles translated into English from twenty-five European languages nominated for the 2011 Popescu Prize.

The two Galician titles are: I Am Not from Here by María do Cebreiro, translated by Helena Miguélez-Carballeira (published by Shearsman Books in 2010) and the Collected Poems of Lois Pereiro, translated by Jonathan Dunne (published by Small Stations Press in 2011).

The Popescu Prize is awarded every two years and is administered by the UK Poetry Society and funded by the Ratiu Foundation. The winner of this year's prize, whose judges are Jane Draycott and Sasha Dugdale, will be announced in November.

María do Cebreiro’s first book published in English

Congratulations to the poet María do Cebreiro on the publication by Shearsman Books in Exeter of I Am Not from Here in Helena Miguélez-Carballeira’s translation.

This is only the fifth book by a contemporary Galician poet to be published in English, joining two titles by Chus Pato also published by Shearsman Books, one title by Miguel Anxo Murado and one by Manuel Rivas. There have also been several anthologies.

In 2008 María was the first Galician writer-in-residence at Bangor University, where Helena is lecturer in Spanish and director of the Centre for Galician Studies.