David Constantine
David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet,[1] author and translator.[2]
Background
Born in
Oxford University from 1981 to 2000.[4]
He was the co-editor of the literary journal TS Eliot Prize.[5]
His collections of poetry include Madder, Watching for Dolphins, Caspar Hauser, The Pelt of Wasps, Something for the Ghosts, Collected Poems and Nine Fathom Deep. He is a translator of
Jaccottet
.
In 2015, the film Academy Award for her performance.
Constantine is also author of two novels, Davies and The Life Writer, a biography, Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton, and multiple collections of short stories, including Back at the Spike, the highly acclaimed Under the Dam (2005) and The Shieling (2009) and the award-winning Tea at the Midland and Other Stories.
Awards and honours
- 2020 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry[6]
- 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, Tea at the Midland and Other Stories[7]
- 2010 BBC National Short Story Award, "Tea at the Midland"
- 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, shortlist, The Shieling
- 2003 Popescu Prize, translation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger's Lighter than Air
- 2002 Whitbread Poetry Prize, shortlist, Watching for Dolphins
Bibliography
- A Brightness to Cast Shadows (1980), Bloodaxe Books, ISBN 9780906427156
- Watching for the Dolphins (1983)
- Early Greek Travellers and the Hellenic Ideal (1984)
- Davies (1985)
- Selected Poems (1991)
- Back at the Spike (1994)
- Caspar Hauser (1994)
- The Pelt of Wasps (1998)
- Something for the Ghosts (2002)
- Under the Dam (2005)
- The Shieling (2009)
- Tea at the Midland and Other Stories (2012)
- Poetry: The Literary Agenda (2013)
- In Another Country: Selected Stories (2015)
- The Dressing-Up Box and Other Stories (2019)
Translations
- Bertolt Brecht: The Antigone of Sophocles
- The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht (translated with Tom Kuhn)
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Lighter than Air
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger: New Selected Poems
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, Part 1
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, Part 2
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Elective Affinities
- Friedrich Hölderlin: Sophocles: Oedipus and Antigone
- Friedrich Hölderlin: Selected Poems
- Philippe Jaccottet: Under Clouded Skies & Beauregard (translated with Mark Treharne)
- Heinrich von Kleist: Selected Writings
- Henri Michaux: Spaced, Displaced (translated with Helen Constantine)
Reviews
- Hearn, Sheila G. (1981), review of A Brightness to Cast Shadows, in Murray, Glen (ed.), Cencrastus No. 5, Summer 1981, pp. 51
References
- ^ Carol Rumens, "Poem of the week: Frieze by David Constantine", The Guardian, 22 June 2009.
- ^ Katherine Bucknell, "The Boys in Berlin: Auden's Secret Poems", The New York Times, 4 November 1990.
- ^ "Supernumerary Fellows". The Queen's College Website. Archived from the original on 21 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
- ^ "Bloodaxe Profile". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ Louise Jury, "Judges in rapture as poet Duffy wins T S Eliot Prize", The Independent, 17 January 2006.
- TheGuardian.com. 18 December 2020.
- ^ Liz Bury, "David Constantine comes in from the periphery to win Frank O'Connor award", The Guardian, 1 July 2013.
External links
- Profile at the British Council
- Profile and recordings at the Poetry Archive
- David Constantine, Comma Press]
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