Delve into the art and craft of translation in our three-part spin-off series ‘Translators on Translation’, presented in partnership with the ⁠John Dryden Translation Competition⁠ and the ⁠Centre for World Literatures⁠ at the University of Leeds.

In this episode Olivia Santovetti, Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Leeds, talks to translator Antonella Lettieri who won first prize in the 2022-23 John Dryden Translation Competition for her translation The War of the Murazzi from La guerra dei Murazzi by Enrico Remmert.

You can read Antonella's prize-winning translation ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

You can keep up to date with Antonella's work by visiting her website here or following her on Instagram here. You can order her latest full-length translation, of A Little Matter by Maria Grazia Calandrone, here.

The John Dryden Translation Competition is run by the University of Leeds Centre for World Literatures and sponsored by the ⁠British Comparative Literature Association⁠ and the ⁠British Centre for Literary Translation⁠. Prizes are awarded for the best unpublished literary translations of poetry, prose, or drama from any period from any language into English.

You can find out more about the John Dryden Translation Competition and entering your translation ⁠here⁠.