This just in: Colonies is one of eight finalists for the 2014 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. An immense thank you to judges Jonathan Katz, Adriana Jacobs, Patrick McGuinness, and Matthew Reynolds for selecting the book, which they describe as “virtuosic translations of a moving Polish sonnet sequence about place and the past.” The winner will be announced on June 14 during the Oxford Translation Day events at St. Anne’s College.