Awards:

Sexto Certamen Internacional de Poesia 2008 "La Lectora Impatiente" - Shortlisted in the 6th Poetry Competition with the poem Danza

Flavia Cosma and Charles Siedlecki are delighted to announce their latest literary accomplishment:
Third Prize in the John Dryden Translation Competition 2007, for the translation of In The Arms of The Father, poems by Flavia Cosma

Sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association and the British Centre for Literary Translation
The award ceremony will take place at the BCLA conference at Goldsmith’s in London, UK, in July 2007.
An extract from their entry will be published in Comparative Critical Studies, the journal of the BCLA, later this year.

Flavia Cosma received an Honorable Mention Award for her poem Cradle-Song, published in the recent anthology Open Heart 1 (The Ontario Poetry Society).

First Prize for the poem The Season Of Love, at the "Paz en el Mundo - Primer Concurso Poemas Pour La Paz" (Peace in the World - First Competition for Poetry for Peace), awarded by The Bilingual Writers MCA Club and IFLAC, Argentina.

The poem The Season Of Love was translated into Spanish by Maria Cristina Azcona from Argentina.
The poem The Season of Love (English version) was also chosen as The Poem of the Month for the month of February by the same association.

La Estación del Amor
por Flavia Cosma
Traducción de María Cristina Azcona

Luz calma
Al amanecer
Disipa suave
Las sombras de la noche

Los objetos en grises y azules
Se desperezan.
La sustancia vuelve a ser lo que es
En esencia.
La vida renace desde las olas.

Sucumbe y se rinde la imperfección
Maravillados, volvemos a ser nosotros
Completos y hermosos,
Plenos de gracia.

La paz nos rodea
Con grandes alas de abuela.
Nos reflejamos cálidos
En nuestros enemigos.

Con brazos amorosos
Queremos suavizar su rígida expresión
Y unir los vuelos breves y cansados
En sedosos, plateados viajes...
En mañanas pías
En este joven invierno

The Season of Love
by Flavia Cosma

Calm light
Early in the morning
Gently melts
The shadows of the night.

Objects, gray and blue forms,
Are jolted from sleep;
Substance returns to itself;
Daily life rises from the waves.

Imperfection recedes, yields;
Awed, we find ourselves again,
Complete and beautiful,
Filled with grace.

Peace surrounds us
With a grandmother's wings.
We reflect tenderly
On our fiercest enemies.

With willowy arms
We want to smooth their wrinkled, rough brows
And gather the tired, shortened flight
Into silky, silvery laps
Of the pious mornings
Of the young winter.

Canadian Scene National Award, for TV documentary, for Romania, a Country at the Crossroads, 1991

Alta Richard Wilbur Prize for poetry in translation, 47 Poems, 1989