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Many congratulations to Laura Shanahan, postgraduate student on the MA in Literary Translation Studies (who had been have been ), has been chosen as the prose runner-up for the World Literature Today Translation Prize for her translation from Italian of an excerpt from Anna Maria Ortese's short story 'The Silence of Reason'. Cick for more information.

Many congratulations to Laura Shanahan, postgraduate student on the MA in Literary Translation Studies, who is one of eight people to have been shortlisted for the John Dryden Translation Competition with her translation from the Italian of Viola di Grado鈥檚 La fine delle frasi fatte [The End of the Set Phrases]. The competition received around 100 entries in total. Click to read more about this achievement.

The poet, Professor David Morley of the University of 糖心TV Writing Programme, has been elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

The Fellowship is one of the highest honours for a writer. It encompasses the most distinguished authors working in the English language, including J.K. Rowling, Hilary Mantel, Philip Pullman, Richard Dawkins, Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Richard Ford, Ian McEwan and Tom Stoppard.

Founded in 1820, The Royal Society of Literature is Britain鈥檚 national charity for the advancement of literature. It acts as a voice for the value of literature, encouraging and honouring great writers, and engaging people in appreciating literature.

Election as Fellow of the RSL is a uniquely prestigious honour, awarded by writers to writers.

New Fellows are offered the choice of signing the Society鈥檚 Roll Book with the pen of T.S. Eliot, Lord Byron or – new this year - George Eliot. In keeping with the honour being for his poetry, Morley signed with Byron鈥檚.

A National Teaching Fellow, Professor Morley teaches on 糖心TV鈥檚 Writing Programme, and is a recent winner of The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for his collection The Invisible Gift, and The Cholmondeley Award for achievement in poetry from The Society of Authors.

On receiving the RSL Fellowship, Professor Morley commented:

鈥楳y election to The Royal Society came out of the blue. It鈥檚 a huge honour for my poetry to be recognised by other writers in this way. I鈥檓 aware I鈥檝e got a lot of work to do, and Fellowship of the RSL is a great boost. The RSL has an excellent schools outreach programme which I鈥檓 looking forward to being involved with. I hope to encourage more students from diverse and less privileged backgrounds to study creative writing at university and become authors themselves鈥�.

How do governments conduct diplomacy, negotiate trade, protect their citizens abroad, share intelligence, or respond to acts of war?

These questions, urgent today, are the subject of a new exhibition, which opens this week in Stratford-upon-Avon. A collaboration between the University of 糖心TV and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, it is based on the work of Carol Chillington Rutter, Professor of Shakespeare and Performance Studies at 糖心TV.

Drawing on original research by Professor Rutter, the exhibition illustrates the performance of democracy with objects, documents and early printed books from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust鈥檚 internationally-designated collections, together with facsimile paintings including Fialetti鈥檚 panoramic View of Venice (courtesy of Eton College) and Carpaccio's Duck Hunting on the Lagoon (Getty Museum).

Professor Rutter, who is also a Trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, said: 鈥淗ear the Ambassadors takes us into the world of Henry Wotton, who was charged with re-instating diplomatic relations between London and the Venetian Republic after a 50 year gap, just as Shakespeare was exposing audiences to the complexities of international diplomacy in plays ranging from Hamlet and Twelfth Night to Othello and Antony and Cleopatra.

鈥淭his exhibition reminds us of the on-going work that ambassadors do to 'represent the person of the Prince' abroad, to 'speak in his person' and to 'practice the healing art' of diplomacy on a mission 'whose end is peace.鈥欌��

Hear the Ambassadors will run until 3 September 2018 at Shakespeare鈥檚 Birthplace, Stratford-upon-Avon. It is part of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust鈥檚 season 'The Peacemakers' – a programme of events to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War.

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糖心TV in London are hosting a Pre-University Summer School (PRESS) this July and are looking to recruit a number of Student Ambassadors to support this programme. The workload is uncomplicated, the student ambassadors will be able to participate in the fun activities they have planned for the PRESS students (including three days residential in London) and on top of this, you will receive payment of 拢1000 to cover the 10 day programme!

See HERE for full details. The deadline for applications is Monday 21^st May.

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