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White Pine Press in Buffalo, NY, has announced the first winner of its newly-established Cliff Becker Prize in Translation. A Hand Full of Water, a collection of poems by Bulgarian-born German writer Tzveta Sofronieva, will be published in a bilingual edition translated by Chantal Wright in fall 2012. Renowned translator Willis Barnstone, the judge for this year's contest, stated: “Tzveta Sofronieva’s poetry sparkles...Her A Hand Full of Water is the most compelling volume in German verse since the work of Ingeborg Bachman and Hans Magnus Enzensberger....The lucent version by Chantal Wright captures the verve and fluid images of Sofornieva’s poetry....In the best sense her translation stands as an original book of poetry.”
