George Szirtes

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George Szirtes (2011)

George Szirtes (born November 29, 1948 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian-British poet, writer and translator.

Life

George Szirtes' mother was deported from Hungary as a Jew in 1944 and survived imprisonment in the Ravensbrück concentration camp and forced labor in the Penig subcamp . His family fled to Great Britain in 1956 after the Hungarian uprising was put down . Szirtes studied in London and Leeds.

Szirtes writes poems in English that have appeared in magazines since 1973. His first volume of poetry, The Slant Door , was published in 1979 and received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1980 . For his poetry he received, among other awards, the Cholmondeley Award in 1984 and the TS Eliot Prize in 2004 . He also wrote children's books.

Szirtes translates Hungarian literature into English, including works by authors such as Imre Madách , Dezsö Kosztolányi , Gyula Krúdy , Ágnes Nemes Nagy , Sándor Márai , Ferenc Karinthy and Magda Szabó . In 2013 he received the US Best Translated Book Award for the translation of László Krasznahorkai's Roman Satanstango ; In 2015 Krasznahorkai received the Man Booker International Prize and his translators Ottilie Mulzet and George Szirtes were simultaneously awarded a prize for their translations of Krasznahorkai's works.

Szirtes is the editor of several anthologies of poetry. With his wife Clarissa Upchurch he edited the magazine "Starwheel Press".

Szirtes is an Honorary Doctor of the University of East Anglia and an Honorary Fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London .

Works

  • The Slant Door . Secker & Warburg, 1979
  • November and May . Secker & Warburg, 1981
  • Short wave . Secker & Warburg, 1984
  • The Photographer in Winter . Secker & Warburg, 1986
  • Metro . OUP, 1988
  • Bridge Passages . OUP, 1991
  • Blind Field . OUP, 1994
  • Selected Poems . OUP, 1996
  • The Red All Over. Riddle Book . Children's book. Faber, for children, 1997
  • Portrait of my Father in an English Landscape . OUP, 1998
  • The Budapest File . Bloodaxe, 2000
  • An English Apocalypse . Bloodaxe, 2001
  • A Modern Bestiary with artist Ana Maria Pacheco . Pratt Contemporary Art 2004
  • Reel . Bloodaxe, 2004
  • New and Collected Poems . Bloodaxe, 2008
  • with Ken Crandell: Shuck, Hick, Tiffey - Three libretti for children . Gatehouse, 2008
  • The Burning of the Books . Circle Press, 2008
  • The Burning of the Books and Other Poems . Bloodaxe, 2009
  • In the Land of the Giants - for children . Salt, 2012
  • Bad machine . Bloodaxe, 2013
  • The Photographer at Sixteen . MacLehose, 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miranda Seymour : Snapshots of a captive subject . Review, in: Financial Times, January 26, 2019, p. L & A9
  2. ↑ Man Booker International prize 2015 won by 'visionary' László Krasznahorkai in: The Guardian, May 19, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Szirtes, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-British poet, writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest