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George Szirtes (/ˈsɪərtɛʃ/; born 29 November 1948)[1] is a British poet and translator from the Hungarian language into English. Originally from Hungary, he has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life after coming to the country as a refugee at the age of eight. Szirtes was a judge for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize.

George Szirtes
Szirtes in 2011
Born	(1948-11-29) 29 November 1948 (age 73) Budapest, Hungary
Occupation	Writer
Years active	1973–present
Spouse(s)	Clarissa Upchurch
Children	2

Life

Born in Budapest on 29 November 1948, Szirtes came to England as a refugee in 1956 aged 8. After a few days in an army camp followed by three months in an off-season boarding house on the Kent coast, along with other Hungarian refugees, his family moved to London, where he was brought up and went to school, then studied fine art in London and Leeds.[1] Among his teachers at Leeds was the poet Martin Bell.[2]

His poems began appearing in national magazines in 1973, and his first book, The Slant Door, was published in 1979. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize the following year.

He has won a variety of prizes for his work, most recently the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize, for his collection Reel,[3] and the Bess Hokin Prize in 2008 for poems in Poetry magazine. His translations from Hungarian poetry, fiction and drama have also won numerous awards. He has received an Honorary Fellowhsip from Goldsmiths College, University of London and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of East Anglia. He also won the Poetry and the People Award in Guangzhou, China in 2016. In 2019 he was a contributor to A New Divan: A Lyrical Dialogue between East and West (Gingko Library).

Szirtes lives in Wymondham, Norfolk, having retired from teaching at the University of East Anglia in 2013. He is married to the artist Clarissa Upchurch, with whom he ran The Starwheel Press and who has been responsible for most of his book jacket images.

Prizes and honours

• 1980 – Faber Memorial Prize for The Slant Door
• 1982 – Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• 1984 – Arts Council Travelling Scholarship,
• 1986 – Cholmondeley Prize
• 1990 – Déry Prize for Translation The Tragedy of Man
• 1991 – Gold Star of the Hungarian Republic
• 1992 – Shortlisted for Whitbread Poetry Prize for Bridge Passages
• 1995 – European Poetry Translation Prize for New Life
• 1996 – Shortlisted for Aristeion Translation Prize New Life
• 1999 – Sony Bronze Award, 1999 – for contribution to BBC Radio Three, Danube programmes
• 1999 – Shortlisted for Weidenfeld Prize for The Adventures of Sindbad
• 2000 – Shortlisted for Forward Prize Single Poem: Norfolk Fields
• 2002 – George Cushing Prize for Anglo-Hungarian Cultural Relations
• 2002 – Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship
• 2003 – Leverhulme Research Fellowship
• 2004 – Pro Cultura Hungarica medal
• 2004 – T. S. Eliot Prize, for Reel
• 2005 – Shortlisted for Weidenfeld Prize for the Night of Akhenaton
• 2005 – Shortlisted for Popescu Prize for The Night of Akhenaton
• 2005 – PEN Translation Fund Grant from PEN American Center
• 2006 – Ovid Prize, Romania
• 2008 – Bess Hokin Prize (USA) Poetry Foundation
• 2009 – Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize for The Burning of the Books and Other Poems
• 2013 – CLPE Prize for in the Land if the Giants, poems for children
• 2013 – Shortlisted for T S Eliot Prize for Bad Machine
• 2013 – Best Translated Book Award, winner, Satantango[4]
• 2015 – Man Booker International winner, as translator of László Krasznahorkai
• 2016 – Poetry and People Prize (China)
• 2020 – Shortlisted for the PEN/Ackerley Prize for The Photographer at Sixteen[5] Winner James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2020
• 2020 - Winner of James Tait Black Prize for Biography, for The Photographer at Sixteen

Works

References

External links

• George Szirtes' website
• George Szirtes Blog
• Contemporary Writers
• Writers Artists
• Interview with John Tusa, BBC Radio 3
• George Szirtes: what being bilingual means for my writing and identity (The Guardian, 3 May 2014)
• George Szirtes T S Eliot Lecture, 2005
• Article in Hungarian Quarterly
• Article by Szirtes' on hidden Jewish roots in Habitus: A Diaspora Journal
• George Szirtes at The Poetry Archive
• Two Poems in Guernica Magazine

На других языках

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[de] George Szirtes

George Szirtes (geboren 29. November 1948 in Budapest) ist ein ungarisch-britischer Dichter, Schriftsteller und Übersetzer.

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- [en] George Szirtes

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[ru] Сиртеш, Джордж

Джордж Сиртеш (англ. George Szirtes, 29 ноября 1948, Будапешт) — английский поэт и переводчик венгерского происхождения.

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