Author Maria Stepanova and translator Sasha Dugdale speak about the 2021 International Booker Prize-longlisted In Memory of Memory
Sasha Dugdale
Sasha Dugdale is a poet, writer and translator. She has published five collections of poems, most recently Deformations in 2020
She won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2016 and in 2017 she was awarded a Cholmondeley Prize for Poetry. She is former editor of Modern Poetry in Translation and is poet-in-residence at St John’s College, Cambridge (2018-2021).
All nominated books
Maria Stepanova’s unique portrait of a family is imbued with rare intellectual curiosity and a wonderfully soft-spoken, poetic voice
Translated by Sasha Dugdale