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Biography

Judith Wilkinson is a British poet and translator. She is fully bilingual, but translates exclusively into English.

She has a B.A. in English literature from Leeds University and an M.A. in English literature from Manchester University.

She worked for some years as an English teacher at a British secondary school, before starting out as a freelance translator in London. During that time she also collaborated with the contemporary dance-theatre company The Kosh, who performed two of her poems as a double bill entitled ‘Just below the Surface’.

She now lives in Groningen, the Netherlands. In addition to writing her own poetry, she translates contemporary Dutch and Flemish poetry. Among the poets whose work she has translated into English are Toon Tellegen, Miriam Van hee, Menno Wigman and Hagar Peeters.

Judith has won many awards, including the Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation in 2011 and the Brockway Prize in 2013. In 2011 her work as a whole was nominated for a London Poetry Award.