News Godolphin Translators Commended in National Competition 23.06.2026

We are thrilled to hear that two of our Lower Sixth students have received commendation awards for their entries into the Queens College, Oxford, Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators. Maia was commended for French and Livia May for German.

The competition is inspired by the life and work of the great translator Anthea Bell OBE (1936-2018) who was ranked among the leading literary translators of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her work from German, French and Danish into English encompassed the writings of Kafka, Freud, E.T.A. Hoffmann, the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Georges Simenon, W.G. Sebald, René Goscinny, Cornelia Funke and many others. She won numerous literary awards, some of them several times, and was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2015.

The competition aims to promote language learning across the UK and to inspire creativity in the classroom. The aim is to encourage more pupils to study modern foreign languages throughout their time at school and beyond.