Sasha Dugdale

Sasha Dugdale is a writer and translator. She has published six books of poetry with Carcanet, most recently: Deformations (2020), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot and Derek Walcott Prizes. She has written for The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement and edited Modern Poetry in Translation. She has enjoyed a long collaboration with the writer Maria Stepanova as a translator and has won a number of PEN Translates Awards as well as being shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Her translation of Stepanova’s In Memory of Memory won the MLA Lois Roth Award.  Dugdale is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

At the Institute, Dugdale will focus on A Work of Salvage, an experimental piece of poetic prose, which attempts to salvage a lost culture and society by means of magic, dreams, and the reworking of classical literature, and in doing so will create a possible way into an imaginary future.