George Szirtes
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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 mehr anzeigen 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. weniger anzeigen
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Werke von George Szirtes
Leopard V: An Island of Sound: Hungarian Poetry and Fiction Before and Beyond the Iron Curtain (2004) 8 Exemplare
Fortinbras at the Fishhouses: Responsibility, the Iron Curtain and the Sense of History as Knowledge (Newcastle /… (2010) 6 Exemplare
The World Goes On 4 Exemplare
Music & Literature: Issue 2 3 Exemplare
Idyll 1 Exemplar
New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation (Anthologies in Translation) by Istvan Kemeny (2010-03-09) — Herausgeber — 1 Exemplar
The Iron Clouds 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
Serenade vom durchstochenen Herzen : Sindbad-Novellen (1944) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben; Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 203 Exemplare
The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks (2017) — Mitwirkender — 17 Exemplare
Sunlight on the River: Poems About Paintings, Paintings About Poems (2015) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
Poetry Introduction 4, with Clothier, Cluysenaar, Alan Hollinghurst, Craig Raine and Szirtes (1978) — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
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- 1948-05-09
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- Hungary (birth)
UK - Geburtsort
- Budapest, Hungary
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- London, England, UK
Wymondham, Norfolk, England, UK - Berufe
- poet
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- Upchurch, Clarissa (wife)
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- University of East Anglia
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- Ovid Prize (2006)
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