Valle Inclán Translation Award

The Society of Authors’ Translation Prizes from Arabic, Ducht/Flemish, French, German and Spanish into English event will be presented by Sir Peter Stothard, Editor of the Times Literary Supplement, followed by The Annual Sebald Lecture. The lecture will be given by the poet Sean O’Brien.

Sean O’Brien is a poet, critic, broadcaster, anthologist and editor. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His selected poems, Cousin Coat; Selected Poems 1976-2001 was published in 2002 and his new verse of Dante’s Inferno in 2006. His work has received major awards.