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Karen Leeder's translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig's Shining Sheep has been longlisted for the Oxford Weidenfeld Prize 2025
Karen Leeder has been shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize 2025 with her translation of Durs Grünbein, Psyche Running: Selected Poems 2005-2022 (Seagull Books 2024).
Ian Maclachlan has won the prize awarded by the Modern Language Review for the best article published in 2024, for his essay on 'Nicolas Pesquès and the Ecology of Life-Writing: Human and Non-Human Relations in La Face nord de Juliau'.
Kirstin Gwyer has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2025-26.
Nikolaj Lübecker has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 2025-26. Nikolaj’s project – entitled The World Brain, A Cultural History – explores the sometimes utopian, sometimes dystopian idea that the world coheres as a cognisant system.
The British edition of the prestigious French literary prize has been held in London on 28th March.
The Faculties of History and Medieval and Modern Languages along with St Hilda’s College, Oxford are delighted to be offering a Study Day dedicated to Year 12 state school students looking to study History and a Modern Language at University/Oxford!
Karen Leeder discusses The Café with No Name with Austrian Writer for Oxford Literary Festival Thursday 3rd April, 2 pm 1 hour Bodleian Convocation House £8 £15 tickets here International bestselling Austrian novelist Robert Seethaler talks about his late
Karen Leeder has been longlisted for the prestigious Griffin International Poetry Prize 2025 with her translation of Psyche Running.
February 21 -22 in Freiburg, Germany https://www.some.ox.ac.uk/news/colloquium-and-concert-celebrate-the-work-of-almut-suerbaum/
This year, Oxford’s Sub-Faculty of Portuguese brought three special guests to the university to talk about their work, as part of our long-running Brazil Week, which celebrates Brazilian literature and culture.
Year 12 BAME students attending state schools can now apply to attend our virtual Humanities Study Day.
A book by faculty member Holly Langstaff is one of four titles shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize
The University of Oxford’s “Brazil Week” aims to raise awareness about the richness and diversity of Brazilian culture by organising a number of free events open not only to students and academics, but also to the general public.
It is with great sadness that we inform members of the Faculty of the death of Professor Martin McLaughlin, Emeritus Agnelli-Serena Chair of Italian and Fellow of Magdalen College. Martin passed away peacefully at Sobell House at 6.30 on Friday morning.
Congratulations to doctoral student Anna Glieden, who has been awarded a prestigious Wiedemann-Fellowship for Enlightenment Research at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) in Halle.
During the second World War, Daniel Cordier was a young secretary to the famous Jean Moulin, one of the main leaders of the Resistance.
We are delighted that award-winning and internationally best-selling novelist, essayist, critic and poet Tahar Benjelloun will be giving the 2025 Zaharoff lecture.