Ellen Hinsey

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Ellen Hinsey (born 1960 in Boston ) is an American writer.

Life

Ellen Hinsey studied literature at Tufts University and Paris VII University . She has lived in Paris since the mid-1970s, where she first taught at the Ecole Polytechnique and later in the courses at Skidmore College in Paris.

Hinsey's first book of poems, Cities of Memory , was published in 1996 and won the Yale University Series Award. Hinsey's poetry is based on a dialogue with philosophy and history. In the volume she writes about Sigmund Freud's emigration from Vienna, the building of the Berlin Wall and the exile of the Russian writer Marina Zwetajewa. After the second volume, The White Fire of Time , which appeared in 2002, she researched the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague and published Update on the Descent in 2009 . Articles that she wrote on the political and social situation in Central and Eastern Europe in 2012 and 2013 for the New England Review magazine and interviewed Václav Havel , Agnes Heller and Lilija Schewzowa , among others , were published in an anthology in 2017.

Hinsey translated poems by Tomas Venclova into English and published a volume in 2008. In 2016 his memories, recorded in a conversation with her, appeared.

In 2015 Hinsey was a guest of the DAAD's Berlin artist program .

Works (selection)

  • Mastering the Past: Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and the Rise of Illiberalism . Telos Press, 2017
  • Magnetic North: Conversations with Tomas Venclova . 2016
    • The magnetic north . Conversations with Ellen Hinsey. Memories. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2017. ISBN 978-3518-42633-3
  • The magnetic north. Tomas Venclova remembers Czesław Miłosz, Joseph Brodsky and Anna Achmatowa . From the English and with a comment by Claudia Sinnig. In: Schreibheft , Heft 81, 2013, pp. 53–96
  • Update on the Descent . Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books, 2009
  • The White Fire of Time . Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2002
  • Cities of Memory . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996
Translations
  • (Ed.): The Junction: Selected Poems of Tomas Venclova . Bloodaxe Books, 2009
  • Zhu Xiao-Mei : The Secret Piano: From Mao's Labor Camps to Bach's Goldberg Variations . Translation by Ellen Hinsey. AmazonCrossing, 2012
  • Hélène Grimaud : Wild Harmonies . Translation by Ellen Hinsey. Riverhead Press, 2006

literature

  • Sabine Sielke : How Experimental Is It, or: When Did Modernism End? Notes on (Reading) American Poetry. In: Kornelia Freitag (Ed.): Another Language: Poetic Experiments in Britain and North America . 2008 ISBN 978-3825812102 , pp. 77-91
  • Uta Gosmann: Poetic Memory: The Forgotten Self in Plath, Howe, Hinsey, and Glück . Lanham: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011 ISBN 978-1611470369
  • Paulina Ambrozy: (Un) concealing the Hedgehog . Poznan: WN UAM, 2012 ISBN 978-8323224839

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ John Lloyd : The Return of History . Review, in: Financial Times , March 4, 2017, p. 9
personal data
SURNAME Hinsey, Ellen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston