Tony Curtis (writer, 1946)

Tony Curtis (* 1946 in Carmarthen , ( Carmarthenshire )) is a Welsh writer.

Life

He first attended the Carmarthen Grammar School and the Greenhill School in Tenby . This was followed by a degree in English at the University College of Wales in Swansea and at Goddard College in Plainfield in Vermont ( USA ). After working as a teacher in England for five years , he returned to Wales. In the 1980s he was a lecturer in English and creative writing at the Polytechnic of Wales in Pontypridd .

From 1976 he was part of the management of the Academi Gymreig , in 1984 he took over the management of the English section there. He published Madog magazine.

Tony Curtis won several awards. In 1972 he received the Eric Gregory Award . The Welsh Arts Council Young Poets Prize followed in 1974, and the Stroud Festival Poetry Prize in 1980 and 1981 . In 1984 he won the National Poetry Competition .

Works (selection)

• Walk Down a Welsh Wind , Poems, 1972
• Home Movies , Poems, 1973
• Album , poems, 1974
• Out of the Dark Wood , Short Stories, 1977
• Carnival , poems, 1978
• Preparations , poems, 1980
• The Art of Seamus Heaney , Essays, 1982 (Editor)
• Letting Go , poems, 1983
• Dannie Abse , literary criticism, 1985
• Selected Poems 1970-1985 , poems 1986
• Wales: The Imagined Nation. Essays in Cultural and National Identity , 1986 (Editor)

literature

• Biographical Notes Tony Curtis. In: Hans Petersen (ed.): Explorations - 28 Welsh storytellers. Volk und Welt, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-353-00361-4 , page 378.