New Zealand’s leading
national reading charity, the New Zealand Book Council, is pleased to announce
the inaugural Moving Words prize – a literary translation prize for New Zealand
secondary schools.
The prize has been developed
by the New Zealand Book Council in conjunction with the New Zealand Centre for
Literary Translation and Wai-te-ata Press at Victoria University of Wellington,
and the Ministry of Education. The prize is a reflection of New Zealand’s
multi-ethnic and multilingual society and aims to inspire and reward excellence
in literary translation by secondary-level students.
“We are delighted to be able
to offer an avenue for the celebration of literature and language in our
secondary schools and to inspire students to approach writing, and indeed
reading, from a fresh perspective,” says New Zealand Book Council CEO, Catriona
Ferguson.
Man Booker Prize winner
Eleanor Catton will chair a judging panel that will select the top three
entries out of 20 shortlisted entries.
The prize is awarded for the
best previously unpublished translation into English, te reo Māori or New
Zealand Sign Language of a piece of poetry or prose of no longer than 400
words.
Prizes are:
·
$500
to the first place winner(s) and $500 to their school.
·
$250
to the second place winner(s) and $250 to their school.
·
$125
to the third place winner(s) and $125 to their school.
·
A
special prize will be awarded by the Honourable Chris Finlayson to the best
translation from Latin or Greek.
Translations will be judged
on accuracy, literary merit and on the entrant’s choice of the original piece
for thematic and stylistic complexity.
The award is open to New
Zealand residents or citizens who are attending a New Zealand secondary school,
or receiving home schooling at a secondary school level, and are under 19 years
of age at the closing date for submissions to the competition.
Closing date for
submissions is 26 September 2014.
Entry forms can be downloaded
from www.movingwordsnz.weebly.com or by emailing movingwordsnz@bookcouncil.org.nz.
For further information,
visit www.movingwordsnz.weebly.com.
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