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Posted on December 12th 2023
Isabella, Year 12, is Highly Commended in Schools Laureate Poetry Prize
Congratulations to Isabella, Year 12, on her Highly Commended poetry translation entry for the 2023 Schools Laureate Prize.
Isabella translated the poem Canção do Exílio (The Exiles Song), originally written by Gonçalves Dias in Brazilian Portuguese.
Isabella's translation has reached the hearts and minds of this year's judges and has celebrated the bicentenary of Gonçalves Dias' birth in a true patriotic spirit. You can read the original and Isabella's translation below.
The Stephen Spender Schools Laureate Prize is an annual prize for poetry in translation, with categories for pupils, teachers and individual young people in the UK and Ireland, as well as an open category for adults from all over the world. Click HERE to see the prize winners.
This year’s competition was open for entries until 14th July 2023. Thank you to all the HAB multilingual participants for their inspirational entries:
- Anna (Year 8) who translated the poem June from Chinese
- Ahniia (Year 10) who translated the poem Everything is Mine, Everything is Called Ukraine from Ukrainian
- Sofia (Year 10) who translated the poem Hombre Pequenito from Spanish
- Ivana (Year 11) who translated the poem Farewell from Bulgarian
- Zainab (Year 8) for translation from Arabic
- Khadija (Year 9) for translation from Urdu
- Warisa (Year 10) for translation from Pashto
- Hawa (Year 7) and Aisha (Year 8) for their translations from French
- Sofia (Year 7), Alessandra, Abigail and Annelys (Year 8), and Nicole and Viesca (Year 10) for their translations from Spanish
Watch Isabella on film
Watch students talking about their translated poems. Isabella features at 3:39 minutes and again at 4.13 minutes.
