Judith Wilkinson is a British poet and translator, living in Groningen, the Netherlands. She is known for her translations of Dutch and Flemish poetry into English. She has translated the works of Toon Tellegen, Miriam Van hee, Menno Wigman and Hagar Peeters.
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Awards and honours
2007: Runner-up David Reid Poetry Translation Prize
2007: Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Instead of Silence by Miriam Van hee.
2008: First prize David Reid Poetry Translation Prize.
2009: Runner-up David Reid Poetry Translation Prize.
2011: Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation for Raptors by Toon Tellegen.
2013: Brockway Prize.
2019: Pushcart Prize, nominated by The Manhattan Review
2021: Menno Wigman, The World by Evening, longlisted for the Vondel Prize
Poetry collections
Judith Wilkinson, Tightrope Dancer, Shoestring Press 2010
Judith Wilkinson, Canyon Journey, with artwork by Ditty Doornbos, Shoestring Press 2016
Judith Wilkinson, In Desert, Shoestring Press 2021
Judith Wilkinson, Sphinx Moth, Poetry Salzburg 2026
Translated titles
Miriam Van hee, Instead of Silence, Shoestring Press 2007
Toon Tellegen, About Love and About Nothing Else, Shoestring Press 2008
Toon Tellegen, Raptors, Carcanet Press 2011
Toon Tellegen, A Man and an Angel, Shoestring Press 2013
Hagar Peeters, City of Sandcastles, Shoestring Press 2018
Toon Tellegen, Under a Giant Sky, Selected Poems, Shoestring Press 2019
Maya Wuytack, Nothing Chronic (Except Love), WA Poets Inc 2019
Menno Wigman, The World by Evening, Shearsman Books, 2020
Hanny Michaelis, In an Unguarded Moment, Selected Poems, Shoestring Press 2022
Toon Tellegen, A Slippery Slope, Shoestring Press 2023
Miriam Van hee, Sediment of Light, Selected Poems, Shoestring Press 2025
Alara Adilow, Myths and Traffic Lights, Selected Poems, Shearsman Books 2026
Poetry performed
The Kosh, Just Below the Surface, poetry by Judith Wilkinson, 1995.