Ciaran Carson

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Ciaran Gerard Carson (born October 9, 1948 in Belfast , † October 6, 2019 there ) was a Northern Irish poet , writer and translator . His multi-award-winning poetry combines traditional Irish storytelling with postmodern elements.

Life and work

Ciaran Carson grew up as the son of a postman in one of the few Irish-speaking families in Belfast. He began studying at Queen's University of Belfast in 1967 and worked for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from 1975. In 1998 he became a professor at Queen's University, where he was also director of the Seamus Heaney Center for Poetry from 2003 to 2015.

His first volume of poetry, The New Estate (1976), received the Eric Gregory Award. For The Irish for No (1987) Carson received the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award for Belfast Confetti (1990) the Irish Literature Prize for Poetry of the Irish Times , for First Language (1993) the TS Eliot Prize and Breaking News (2003) the Forward Poetry Prize . Characteristic of his poems are the long verses and the wealth of allusions and details. His subjects are mainly Belfast and the language.

From the 1990s, Carson also emerged through prose publications. He has authored two books on Irish traditional music , one on his hometown Belfast, the story Fishing for Amber and the novels Shamrock Tea and The Pen Friend . Carson also worked as a translator and was an honorary member of the Irish Translators 'and Interpreters' Association and a member of Aosdána . Among other things, he translated Dante's Inferno and the Táin Bó Cúailnge into English.

Carson died in October 2019, three days before his 71st birthday.

Works

  • 1976: The New Estate (poems)
  • 1978: The Lost Explorer
  • 1986: Irish Traditional Music (via Irish Folk)
  • 1987: The Irish for No (poems)
  • 1990: Belfast Confetti (poems)
  • 1993: First Language (poems)
  • 1995: Letters from the Alphabet
  • 1996: Last Night's Fun: About Time, Food and Music (via Irish Folk)
  • 1996: Opera et Cetera (poems)
  • 1997: The Star Factory (via Belfast)
  • 1998: The Alexandrine Plan (translations)
  • 1999: Fishing for Amber (short story)
  • 1999: The Twelfth of Never (poems)
  • 2001: Shamrock Tea (novel)
  • 2002: The Inferno (translation)
  • 2003: Breaking News (poems)
  • 2005: The Midnight Court (translation)
  • 2007: The Táin (translation)
  • 2008: For All We Know (poems)
  • 2009: The Pen Friend (novel)
  • 2014: From Elsewhere (translations)

Secondary literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical Note in the Irish Literary Collections Portal ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / irishliterature.library.emory.edu
  2. ↑ Award winning Belfast poet Ciaran Carson passes away aged 70 , belfasttelegraph.co.uk, published and accessed on October 6, 2019
  3. ↑ a b Peter Forbes about Ciaran Carson on contemporarywriters.com ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.contemporarywriters.com
  4. ↑ Ciaran Carson on pgil-eirdata.org ( Memento from July 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Aida Edemariam: A life in poetry: Ciaran Carson. In: The Guardian . January 17, 2009, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  6. ^ Ciaran Carson at Aosdána
personal data
SURNAME Carson, Ciaran
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carson, Ciaran Gerard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Northern Irish writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 2019
Place of death Belfast