George Szirtes
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About the Author
George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948, and came to England with his family after the 1956 Hungarian Uprising. He was educated in England, training as a painter, and has always written in English. In recent years he has worked as a translator of Hungarian literature, producing editions of such mostrar mais writers as Ott Orbn, Zsuzsa Rakovszky and gnes Nemes Nagy, and novelists such as Sndor Mrai and Lszl Krasznahorkai. His other Bloodaxe titles include Reel, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, New Collected Poems; The Burning of the Books and other poems; Bad Machine; and Mapping the Delta. His memoir, The Photographer at Sixteen (MacLehose Press, 2019), won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography. He lives in Norfolk and is a freelance writer, having retired from teaching at at the University of East Anglia. mostrar menos
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Obras de George Szirtes
Leopard V: An Island of Sound: Hungarian Poetry and Fiction Before and Beyond the Iron Curtain (2004) 8 cópias
Fortinbras at the Fishhouses: Responsibility, the Iron Curtain and the Sense of History as Knowledge (Newcastle /… (2010) 6 cópias
The World Goes On 4 cópias
Music & Literature: Issue 2 3 cópias
Idyll 1 exemplar(es)
The Poem Sleeve : Civilisation in Transition within the poem 1 exemplar(es)
New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation (Anthologies in Translation) by Istvan Kemeny (2010-03-09) — Editor — 1 exemplar(es)
The Iron Clouds 1 exemplar(es)
'Who is Imre Kertész?' in TLS 5194, 18 Oct 2002 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
The Adventures of Sindbad (1944) — Tradutor, algumas edições; Introdução, algumas edições — 203 cópias
Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (2015) — Contribuinte — 10 cópias
Poetry Introduction 4, with Clothier, Cluysenaar, Alan Hollinghurst, Craig Raine and Szirtes (1978) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1948-05-09
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Hungary (birth)
UK - Local de nascimento
- Budapest, Hungary
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
Wymondham, Norfolk, England, UK - Ocupação
- poet
translator
university teacher - Relacionamentos
- Upchurch, Clarissa (wife)
- Organizações
- University of East Anglia
- Premiações
- Ovid Prize (2006)
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Prêmios
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- Obras
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- Membros
- 258
- Popularidade
- #88,950
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Resenhas
- 8
- ISBNs
- 39
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 1