Elected: 2020
Image credit: Zima Zima
Sasha Dugdale has published six collections of poems with Carcanet, her latest, The Strongbox, was published in 2024. Joy, published in 2017, was a PBS Choice. She won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2016 and in 2017 she was awarded a Cholmondeley Prize for Poetry.
Sasha Dugdale’s translations of the Russian poet Maria Stepanova are published by Bloodaxe and Fitzcarraldo Editions and have been shortlisted for the International Booker and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, amongst others. She won the Lois Roth Award for her translation of Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory. Dugdale has published many translations of Russian-language women’s writing, and a number of her play translations have been produced by theatres in the UK and US.
She is former editor of Modern Poetry in Translation.
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