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Welcome to the website of Judith WilkinsonAbout Judith
Judith Wilkinson is a British poet and translator. She grew up in the Netherlands and is fully bilingual, as the family spoke English at home. Her father is British, her mother Dutch and herself bilingual. Judith translates exclusively into English.
After attending a Dutch grammar school, the Praedinius Gymnasium in Groningen, she moved to England to study English literature, first at Leeds University, where she obtained her B.A., and then at Manchester University, where she obtained an M.A. Her thesis was on Gerard Manley Hopkins. In Manchester she began to attend creative writing workshops and seminars on contemporary poetry.She then worked for some years as an English teacher at a British secondary school, before starting out as a freelance translator in London. In those years in London she translated for the business world, whilst working on her own poetry in her spare time. During that time she also collaborated with the contemporary dance-theatre company The Kosh.
She is currently living in Groningen, the Netherlands, and is concentrating on translating contemporary Dutch and Flemish poetry. Her first collection of translations, Instead of Silence (work by Miriam Van hee), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and several of her translations have received Pushcart nominations. In 2008 she won the David Reid Poetry Translation Prize. Her most recent collection of translations, Toon Tellegen's Raptors, won the Popescu Prize 2011.
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