Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on November 15, 2024 in order to attend this event.

Please join the Harriman Institute for a public reading by Sasha Dugdale.

Sasha Dugdale will read from her recent collections, “Deformations” and “The Strongbox,” and reflect on the way that translating Russian-language poetry has left a lasting impression on her own poetics.

Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. Her sixth book of poetry is “The Strongbox,” published by Carcanet (UK) in 2024. “Deformations” (2020) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot and Derek Walcott Prizes. Her long poem “Joy” won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem of 2016. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Dugdale’s translation of Maria Stepanova’s prose work In Memory of Memory was shortlisted for the International Booker and won the MLA Lois Roth Award. She has translated two of Stepanova’s poetry collections and work by a number of Russian-language women poets, including Elena Shvarts and Marina Tsvetaeva. For many years she specialized in translating Russian-language new writing for theatres in the UK and US, including the New York Public Theater and the UK’s Royal Court Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company.