Carcanet is delighted to announce that the 2011 Popescu Prize for Poetry in Translation has been awarded to Judith Wilkinson's translation of Raptors by Toon Tellegen! The Popescu Prize is awarded biennially by the Poetry Society for a volume of poetry translated from a European language into English. Here's what the judges (Sasha Dugdale and Jane Draycott) said:

'His [Tellegen's] complex, often surreal and always highly affecting poems exhibit an understanding of the power of the story in which the dream-like psychology, the marvellously nuanced telling of a family's malaise set him apart as an entirely distinctive voice in European poetry.'

This year's shortlist was selected from a total of over 70 submissions, representing 25 languages. Congratulations to Toon Tellegen, Judith Wilkinson, and all the shortlisted authors. Click here to read a sample from Raptors and purchase a copy with free UK P&P.