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Translation: An Unfolding Dialogue

03/01/2026
60 min
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The Freudenheim Translation Prize – the most ambitious award in the Jewish Literary Foundation’s 75-year history – celebrates outstanding fiction and non-fiction in English translation. Following its inaugural year, judges Boyd Tonkin, Rabbi Shoshana Boyd Gelfand and Hephzibah Anderson join TLS fiction editor Toby Lichtig to discuss the art of translation and its vital role in carrying stories, ideas and cultures across languages and borders.

About the speakers

Hephzibah Anderson

Hephzibah Anderson is Fiction Editor of the Mail on Sunday and a columnist for The Critic. She regularly writes for The Observer, Prospect magazine and BBC Culture.
Peter Filkins

Peter Filkins is the translator of H.G. Adler’s trio of Holocaust novels and the author of Adler’s authorized biography, H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds. He teaches at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Boyd Tonkin

Journalist, editor and writer awarded the Royal Society of Literature’s Benson Medal in 2020 for outstanding service. He writes on books and arts for international media including FT, Guardian and TLS. Former Literary Editor of The Independent, he chaired the 2016 Man Booker International Prize, is a trustee of the Orwell Foundation, and wrote The […]
Shoshana Boyd Gelfand

Shoshana Boyd Gelfand is a rabbi, author, radio broadcaster and leadership trainer for clergy of all faiths. She currently serves as Director of Leadership and Learning at Pears Foundation in London. She has written several books that strive to make Jewish tradition accessible to people of all faiths, including The Barefoot Book of Jewish Tales and Scholastic’s All About […]
Toby Lichtig

Toby Lichtig is the Fiction and Politics Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He writes for a range of publications and has appeared as a guest critic on various television and radio programmes. He also freelances as a documentary producer. Toby was chair of judges of the 2018 JQ/Wingate Prize and of the EBRD Literature Prize 2020-23.

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Translation: An Unfolding Dialogue

03/01/2026
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60 min

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Hephzibah Anderson

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Hephzibah Anderson is Fiction Editor of the Mail on Sunday and a columnist for The Critic. She regularly writes for The Observer, Prospect magazine...

Peter Filkins

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Peter Filkins is the translator of H.G. Adler’s trio of Holocaust novels and the author of Adler’s authorized biography, H.G. Adler: A Life in...

Boyd Tonkin

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Journalist, editor and writer awarded the Royal Society of Literature’s Benson Medal in 2020 for outstanding service. He writes on books and arts for...

Shoshana Boyd Gelfand

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Shoshana Boyd Gelfand is a rabbi, author, radio broadcaster and leadership trainer for clergy of all faiths. She currently serves as Director of Leadership...

Toby Lichtig

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Toby Lichtig is the Fiction and Politics Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He writes for a range of publications and has appeared as a...