TRAFIKA EUROPE CORNER with Clayton McKee: 2025 LITERARY PRIZES announced
We are taking the chance this week to announce the publication of our most recent issue from Trafika Europe! This issue features our first-ever literary prize winners, runners-up, and special mentions for prose and verse.
The winner of TE’s Andrew Singer Prize for Verse is Anna Błasiak’s translation of Radosław Wiśniewski’s Psalm to Saint Sabina (Polish). Runners-up in verse are Calvin Olsen’s translations of poems from João Luís Barreto Guimarães (Portuguese) and Keith Payne’s translations of Olga Novo’s poetry (Galician). Special mentions include Anna Bentley’s translation of poems from Orsolya Láng’s House, Afternoon and Joanna Lilley’s poems from Rebecca (English), which also feature the lovely paintings from Rebecca Lilley that inspired Joanna’s work.
The winner for TE’s Prize for Prose is Ena Selimovic’s translation of Tatjana Gromača’s Black (Croatian). Runners-up in prose are Suzana Vuljevic’s translation of Mate Matišić’s play titled The Sons Are the First to Die (Croatian) and “Copulation Therapy” from the collection Autismi by Giacomo Sartori, translated by Michela Martini and Elizabeth McKenzie (Italian). Special mentions include Daniel Odija and Wojciech Stefaniec’s graphic novel Stolp translated by Anna Błasiak (Polish) and Julian Darragjati’s story “A Death in the Spring” (English).
A special thank you also goes to Constantin Severin whose artwork adorns this issue as well as this post. You can find our issue featuring literary prizes here. We have also begun posting some audio interviews tied to this issue! Check out a conversation with translator Keith Payne (runner-up in the verse category) here. You can also listen to a conversation with Maria Carbunaru as of April 4th—we featured her in March’s TE Corner. I hope you enjoy!
By Clayton McKee
Read previous posts in The Trafika Europe Corner series:
TRAFIKA EUROPE CORNER with Clayton McKee: two poems by Maria Carbunaru
TRAFIKA EUROPE CORNER with Clayton McKee: two poems by Mark Murphy
TRAFIKA EUROPE CORNER with Clayton McKee: two poems by Tom Fleming
TRAFIKA EUROPE CORNER with Clayton McKee: REGAINING RESISTANCE by Arno Bohlmeijer
TRAFIKA EUROPE CORNER with Clayton McKee: DESERT by Pèire Millet, translated by Clayton McKee
TRAFIKA EUROPE CORNER with Clayton McKee: TE and EU Prize for Literature
Trafika Europe Corner with Clayton McKee: TE’s Prizes for Prose and for Verse
Trafika Europe Corner with Clayton McKee: GARDEN OF EDEN by Sarah Talboys-Smith
Trafika Europe Corner: LOST IN TRANSLATION by Hannah Katerina
Trafika Europe Corner with Clayton McKee: Three poems by Károly Lencsés, translated by Ágnes Megyeri
Trafika Europe Corner with Clayton McKee: Three Poems by Guðrið Helmsdal, translated by Randi Ward
Three poems by Deniz Durukan – in Trafika Europe Corner II.11 by Andrew Singer
Three poems by Marius Burokas – in Trafika Europe Corner II.10 by Andrew Singer
Three poems by Franca Mancinelli – in Trafika Europe Corner II.9 by Andrew Singer
Three poems by Nina Kossman – in Trafika Europe Corner II.8 by Andrew Singer
Three poems by Alexander Kabanov – in Trafika Europe Corner II.7 by Andrew Singer
Three poems by Andrey Gritsman – in Trafika Europe Corner II.6 by Andrew Singer
Kosovan poet Fahredin Shehu – in Trafika Europe Corner II.5 by Andrew Singer
Three poems from Icelandic by Gyrðir Elíasson – in Trafika Europe Corner II.4 by Andrew Singer
Trafika Europe Corner II.3 – New Latvian poet Jānis Tomašs by Andrew Singer
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