JC Poetic Heritage Translation Awards
齊思古詩新解新譯獎

Award Title

Amount for each award:
HK$5,000 x 2 (1^st prize)
HK$3,000 x 2 (2^nd prize)
HK$1,000 x 4 (3^rd prize)
Total: $20,000 (8 awards)
A university-wide English translation competition for the awards is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students of CityU. Interested translators are welcome to submit their entries according to one of two mutually exclusive categories, namely,
"LT Students" and "non-LT Students".
The poem chosen for translation is a delightfully short piece called 黃鳥歌 by a Korean poet in 17 BC. It goes

翩翩黃鳥
雌雄相依
念我之獨
誰其與歸
Some background information of the poem and its author is available here.
Based on the submitted translations, eight to ten finalists will be invited by the first week of March 2019 to submit also a short commentary on their own translations. They are expected to discuss in not more than 400 words one point of interest about the poem and what makes it worthwhile, and challenging, to translate. The commentaries will add substance to the translations to facilitate the ranking of the translators by the adjudicators for the Awards.
Deadline of submission of entries: 25 February, 2019
Please submit by emailing your work to
1. ctawards@cityu.edu.hk (LT Students)
2. ltawards@cityu.edu.hk (non-LT Students)
For enquiries, please call Ms Rita Lee at 3442 8705.

Page last updated: 14 January 2019