Poetry at Sangam
Poetry at Sangam showcases poetry in English and translations as well as essays on poetics and news of new releases.
George Szirtes was born in Hungary in 1948 and came to England as a refugee in 1956. Having studied Fine Art, he published the first of his many books of poems, The Slant Door, in 1979. It won the Faber Memorial Prize. In 2004 he was awarded the T S Eliot Prize for Reel, was also shortlisted for two subsequent collections. His New and Collected Poems appeared in 2008. His most recent book is Mapping the Delta (2016), a PBS Choice.
His translation of László Krasznahorkai’s novel Satantango won the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in the US as well as the translator’s prize in the Man Booker International 2015. He has written three books of verse for children, one of them In the Land of the Giants (2012) winning the CLPE Prize, and in 2019 his widely praised memoir of his mother, The Photographer at Sixteen was published by MacLehose. His has also received awards in Hungary, Romania, America and China. Volumes of his selected poems have appeared in those countries as well as in Italy and Germany.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 1982 he has worked extensively for press and radio. He retired from teaching in 2013.
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