Only 1 Burmese Translator Longlisted for 2020-21 BCLA/BCLT John Dryden Translation Prize

Sai Whira Linn Khant's translation of "Whereabouts is the return? So lost!" from Sabel Phyu Nu's Burmese text "အပြန်လမ်းဘယ်မှာ လမ်းဘယ်မှာ" made the 2020-21 BCLA/BCLT John Dryden Translation Competition longlist.

At the beginning of the first week of September, organizers of the BCLA/BCLT John Dryden Translation Competition announced the winners of their 2020-21 award.

The competition, organized by the British Comparative Literature Association in memory of the first British poet laureate John Dryden (1631–1700), is sponsored jointly with the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia. The competition looks at unpublished literary translations, from any period, from any language into English.

According to the organizers, the longlistees, shortlistees, highly commended texts and winners were chosen from over 100 entries and 29 different languages.