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George Szirtes

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Born: November 28 1948

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George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948 and came to England as a refugee in 1956. He was brought up in London and studied Fine Art in London and Leeds. His poems began appearing in national magazines in 1973 and his first book, The Slant Door, was published in 1979. It won the Faber Memorial prize the following year.

By this time he was married with two children. After the publication of his second book, November and May, 1982, he was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Since then he has published several books and won various other prizes including the T S Eliot Prize for Reel in 2005.

Having returned to his birthplace, Budapest, for the first time in 1984, he has also worked extensively as a translator of poems, novels, plays and essays and has won various prizes and awards in this sphere. His own work has been translated into numerous languages.

Beside his work in poetry and translation he has written Exercise of Power, a study of the artist Ana Maria Pacheco, and, together with Penelope Lively, edited New Writing 10 published by Picador in 2001.

George Szirtes lives near Norwich with his wife, the painter Clarissa Upchurch. Together they ran The Starwheel Press. Corvina has recently produced Budapest: Image, Poem, Film, their collaboration in poetry and visual work.

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George Szirtes

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Books from George Szirtes

Satantango

The Melancholy of Resistance

Metropole

The Last Wolf / Herman

Iza's Ballad

The World Goes On

The Adventures of Sindbad

Reel

The Colonnade of Teeth: Modern Hungarian Poetry

Bad Machine

Ten Poems about London

Thirty Poets Go to the Gym

The Burning of the Books and Other Poems

The Budapest File

Mapping the Delta

Leopard V: An Island of Sound: Hungarian Poetry and Fiction before and beyond the Iron Curtain

Eternal Moment: Selected Poems

New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post 1989 Generation

Poetry: Introduction 4

UEA Creative Writing Anthology Poetry 2013