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Dr. Francis R. Jones (born 1955 in Wakefield, UK) is a poetry translator and senior lecturer in Translation Studies. He is currently working as head of Translating and Interpreting Section of the Modern Language School of Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne. He works largely from Dutch and Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian, though also from German, Hungarian, Russian, and Caribbean creoles.

Background
He studied German and Serbo-Croat on a BA at Cambridge, followed by a year researching poetry at Sarajevo University in former Yugoslavia. After working as a Dutch-English in-house translator, he combined freelance translating with teaching English in the Netherlands and Greece. He joined Exeter University in 1988 and Newcastle University in 1990, working initially in foreign-language learning. However, his work now focuses on translation studies.

Qualifications

 * PhD, Newcastle University, 1996
 * MA, Applied Linguistics, Reading University, 1988.
 * BA, Modern and Medieval Languages, St. John's College, Cambridge University, 1977

Research
Research Interests His research is largely inspired by his work as a poetry translator from Dutch and Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian. It mainly falls into two overlapping areas: Poetry translation - especially how poetry translators translate and how they work with others, creativity and style, and the social/ethical role of the poetry translator. South Slav (ex-Yugoslav) area studies, especially in the fields of modern poetry, culture and identity, with a specific interest in Bosnia and Serbia.

Other Expertise Foreign/second language learning, especially in the field of self-instruction. This was the topic of his Ph.D. thesis (Going it Alone: Self-Instruction in Adult Foreign Language Learning, Newcastle University, 1996). Though he is no longer actively researching in this area, it still interests him.

Current Work He is now working on how ideology is expressed in published poetry translations - via the context of translation, and/or via the translator's decisions whilst actually translating. He is also interested in exploring the processes of poets translating poets.

Esteem Indicators To date, over 30 conference plenary papers, guest lectures, seminar chairs and workshops on literary translation. To date, over 25 readings of own poetry translations.
 * Honorary Board Member, International Forum Bosnia (academic network)
 * Steering Committee Member, Mak Dizdar Foundation, Bosnia
 * Panel member, Bosnian Book of the Year (2000-2005)
 * Assessor for Translators’ List, Foundation for Production and Translation of Dutch Literature
 * Jury member, Corneliu Popescu Prize for the Translation of European Poetry (2007)
 * Committee Member, The Translators' Association (2005-2007)
 * Jury member, Vondel Prize for the Translation of Dutch Literature (1996-2003)
 * Studio 99, Sarajevo: TV programme “Engagement and aesthetics: dilemmas of the literary translator”: presenter of introductory lecture and panel discussant (2001)
 * Studio 99, Sarajevo: TV programme devoted to my translation of Mak Dizdar’s Stone Sleeper (1999)
 * Chair, biennial Nobel Seminar, Swedish Academy, Stockholm, 1998 (theme: translating of poetry and poetic prose)

Academic achievements, awards, and honors

 * 2013: First Prize, John Dryden Translation Competition
 * 2010: Winner, David Reid Poetry Translation Prize
 * 2008: Runner-up, Vondel Prize for Translation of Dutch literature
 * 2008: Runner-Up, David Reid Poetry Translation Prize
 * 2008: “Publication of the Year” Shield, XX Sarajevo International Book Fair, for Skender Kulenović, Soneti / Sonnets (2007).
 * 2007: Winner, David Reid Poetry Translation Prize
 * 2005: Inaugural Winner, James Brockway Prize for the Translation of Dutch Poetry
 * 2000: Best Translation, Association of Publishers and Booksellers in Bosnia and Herzegovina (for Mak Dizdar's Stone Sleeper).
 * 1999: Winner, Sarajevo April 6th Prize (for Mak Dizdar's Stone Sleeper).
 * 1997: Joint Winner, European Poetry Translation Prize (for Ivan V. Lalić's A Rusty Needle)
 * 1996/7: Commendation, British Comparative Literature Association Translation Competition (for poems by Mak Dizdar)
 * 1994/5: Second Prize, British Comparative Literature Association Translation Competition (for poems by Ivan V. Lalić and Drago Štambuk)
 * 1991: Winner, European Poetry Translation Prize (for Ivan V. Lalić's The Passionate Measure).
 * 1988: Honorable Mention, James S. Holmes Translation Awards, Columbia University (for Hans Faverey's Against the Forgetting).

Publications (Selection)

 * Jones FR. Poetry Translating as Expert Action: Processes, Priorities and Networks. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2011.
 * Jones FR. ed. Vasko Popa: Complete Poems. London, UK: Anvil, 2011.
 * Jones FR. Passing on the Hasanaginica: translator's afterword. Forum Bosnae 2010, 51, 278-288.
 * Jones FR. Poetry translation, nationalism and the wars of the Yugoslav transition. The Translator 2010, 16(2), 223-253.
 * Jones FR. (trans). The sad ballad of the noble lady Hasan Aginica. Forum Bosnae 2010, 51, 270-275.
 * Jones FR. Review of: Shakespeare and the language of translation. Modern Language Review 2006, 101(3), 821-822.
 * Jones FR. Stroking hands over the heart: ten translators and the verse of Gerrit Kouwenaar. Modern Poetry in Translation 2006, 3(6), 158-167.
 * Jones FR. Ethics, aesthetics and décision: Literary translating in the wars of the Yugoslav succession. Meta 2004, 49(4), 711-728.
 * Jones FR. Etika, estetika i décision: književno prevođenje u ratovima za jugoslovensko nasljedstvo (Ethics, aesthetics and décision: literary translation in the wars of the Yugolslav succession). Sarajevske sveske 2003, 3, 101-123.
 * Jones FR. Self-instructed foreign language learning: an annotated bibliography. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2003.
 * Jones FR. Seeking the sleepers. Bosnia & Herzegovina: Stolac, Wordpress, 2001.
 * Jones FR. The poet and the ambassador: communicating Mak Dizdar's Stone Sleeper. Translation and Literature 2000, 9(1), 65-87.
 * Jones FR. Review of The Iron-Blue Vault: Selected Poems, by Attila József and Eternal Monday: New and Selected Poems, by György Petri. In Other Words 1999, 17.
 * Jones FR. A leak in the silence: The poetry of Hans Faverey. Callaloo 1998, 21(3), 458-465.
 * Jones FR. Gender and second-language self-instruction. Lancaster, UK: Lancaster University, 1998. Centre for Research in Language Education Special Report.
 * Jones FR. Povratak (Return). Forum Bosnae 1998, 1-2, 195-207.
 * Jones FR. Ivan V. Lalic: a fusion of cultures. The Guardian 1996, (2nd August), 14.
 * Jones FR. Prevoditeljevo slovo (Translator's word). Oslobodjenje 1996, (25 March).
 * Jones FR. Teach yourself languages: the lone language learner. Independence 1996, 18, 16-19.
 * Jones FR. Learner, teach thyself! Self-directed language learning. Greta 1995, 3(2), 19-23.
 * Jones FR. Learning an alien lexicon: a single-subject case study. Second Language Research 1995, 11(2), 95-111.
 * Jones FR. A visszatérés (Return). Ex Symposion 1994, 8-9, 66-72.
 * Jones FR. Poems by Ivan V. Lalić and Drago Štambuk. Contemporary Criticism 1994, (16), 105-125.
 * Jones FR. Beyond the fringe: a framework for assessing teach-yourself materials for ab initio English-speaking learners. System 1993, 21(4), 453-469.
 * Jones FR. The stargazer's legacy: Vasko Popa. North Dakota Quarterly 1993, 61, 83-88.
 * Jones FR. A language-teaching machine: input, uptake and output in the communicative classroom. System 1992, 20(2), 133-150.
 * Jones FR. Classroom riot: design features, language output and topic in simulations and other communicative free-stage activities. System 1991, 19(3), 151-169.
 * Jones FR. Mickey-mouse and state-of-the-art: program sophistication and classroom methodology in communicative CALL. System 1991, 19(1-2), 1-13.
 * Jones FR. On aboriginal sufferance: a process model of poetic translating. Target 1989, 1(2), 183-199.
 * Jones FR. The rose whose scent is time: the poetry of Ivan V. Lalić. Tracks 1982, 2, 31-34.

Translation samples
Francis Jones reads 'Cathedrals' by Ivan V. Lalić