On 30 June 2026, the University of Glasgow awarded Antonia Lloyd-Jones this honour, recognising her remarkable impact on global literature and cross-cultural communication.

We are delighted to celebrate the award of an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) degree to Antonia Lloyd-Jones, one of the most distinguished British translators of Polish literature. The degree was conferred by the University of Glasgow on 30 June 2026 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to literary translation and intercultural exchange.

We are especially proud to honour a translator whose work has helped bring Polish literature to English-speaking readers around the world.

“Antonia Lloyd-Jones is one of the most distinguished literary translators today, and an internationally recognisable figure in the global circulation of Polish literature. Since 2008, she has received numerous prestigious translation awards, recognising a body of work that is as rich as it is remarkably diverse.

Her publication record includes more than one hundred novels, short stories, biographies, children’s literature, theatre plays, essays, and poetry. Yet statístics alone cannot capture the significance of her contribution. Antonia does not merely translate texts; she builds literary bridges, expanding the imaginative and intellectual worlds of English-speaking readers.

She is perhaps best known as one of the two principal English translators of Olga Tokarczuk, whose international reputation she helped to shape long before the 2018 Nobel prize for literature brought Tokarczuk global acclaim. Through her translations, Antonia made complex, daring, and philosophically demanding works not only accessible, but compellíng in English.”

Dr Elwira Grossman, Comparative Literature programme Co-Director, Stepek Lecturer in Polish and Comparative Literature, PGT Convenor for SMLC, Co-Director of ArtsLab on Migration and Disptacement in Arts and Humanities Research

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