Modern Linguists Shortlisted for the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators 2025

In the Spring Term, over 130 modern linguists submitted entries for the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators 2025. This is a prestigious national competition run by The Queen’s College (Oxford University) for pupils studying French, German, Italian and Spanish at GCSE and A Level.

The competition is inspired by the life and work of the great translator Anthea Bell, who is famous for her translations of French, German, and Danish literary works including her translations into English of the Astérix series.

The prize aims to promote language learning across the UK and to motivate pupils in their study of modern foreign languages by engaging them in translation tasks from their studied languages into English. In doing so, pupils are putting the language skills learned in the classroom into practice and reflecting creatively about how to overcome challenges such as cultural references, metre or rhyme.

Congratulations to all of the pupils who entered the prize at St Paul’s School and particular congratulations should go to the following pupils whose translations have been shortlisted by the Modern Foreign Languages faculty at St Paul’s for entry to the national competition.

Level 2 French (Fourth Form)

Conor
Aarav
Lucas
Ryan
Olly

Level 3 French (Fifth and Sixth Forms)

Zac
Andrej
Eddie
Laurie
Arnav
Yajur
Inian

Level 4 French (Lower and Upper Eighth Forms)

Inigo
Dhiraj
Alexis
Louis
Adam

Level 1 German (Fourth Form)

Issam
Henry

Level 2 German (Fifth Form)

David
Carl
Rohaan
Yunho
Kaan

Level 3 German (Sixth Form)

Maxence
Aadhil
Richard

Level 4 German (Lower and Upper Eighth Forms)

Aki

Level 2 Italian (Fifth Form)

Ishaan
Rafael
Rafe
Francisco
Vivaan

Level 3 Italian (Sixth Form)

Inian
Garv
Shyam
Armaan
Akshay

Level 4 Italian (Lower and Upper Eighth Forms)

Louis
Christopher
Sebastian
Luca
Oscar

Level 2 Spanish (Fifth Form)

Aiden
Yousef
Jack
Louis
Alex
Ian
Arya

Level 3 Spanish (Sixth Form)

Maxence
Anish
Daniel
Armaan
Alex
Nayan
Arthur

Level 4 Spanish (Lower and Upper Eighth Forms)

Eli
Henry
Thomas
Lucas
Reuben

Regional winners, runners-up and commendees will be announced in May. National winners, runners-up and commendees will be announced in June.