EmPr Kevin Windle

Kevin Windle is Professor Emeritus in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Head of School in 2003-04, and formerly Convenor of Translation Studies and Russian. He has taught Russian language and literature at all levels, and inaugurated the Masters Program in Translation Studies in 2001. His major publications include the biography Undesirable: Captain Zuzenko and the Workers of Australia and the World (Melbourne 2012), three co-edited volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Translation Studies (Oxford 2011), and numerous literary and scholarly translations. He has recently been working with Professor Alexander Massov (St Petersburg) and Dr Elena Govor (ANU) on the history of Russian settlement in Australia.

Awards

2009: shortlisted for NSW Premier's Prize for literary translation.

2014: inaugural AALITRA Prize for LIterary Translation, for Ana Maria Moix's 'Before Lunch' (Antes del almuerzo), from the Spanish.

2015: second prize in the John Dryden Translation Competition, for Slawomir Mrozek's 'Escape to the South' (Ucieczka na poludnie), from the Polish.

2017: Aurora Borealis Prize for the Translation of Non-Fiction awarded by the Federation Internationale des Traducteurs at the FIT Congress, Brisbane. See:

http://cass.anu.edu.au/news/news/20170908/anu-emeritus-fellow-wins-international-translation-award-work-multiple-languages

2018: AUSIT (Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators) award for excellence in literary translation.

2021: shortlisted for NSW Premier's prize for literary translation, for the translation of Artyom Vesyoly's 'Russia Washed in Blood' (Anthem Press, London & New York).

2021: translation of Sergei Aksakov's 'Collecting Butterflies' highly commended in the Australian Association Writing Program (AAWP) translation competition. 

September 2022. Short-listed for AAWP Translation Prize, For Dmitry Khmelnitsky's poem 'Greetings, unrepentent evil-doer... '

Steptember 2024. Short-listed for AAH Medal for Translation, with Elena govor, for Voices in the Wilderness, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne. 

BA Hons, Liverpool University; MA McMaster University; PhD McGill University

Modern Russian and Polish literature, Slavonic lexicography and Translation Studies, the history of Russian settlement in Australia, the Comintern and Australia.