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Michael HulseMichael Hulse is one of the most acclaimed poets currently writing in Britain. His poetry has won him firsts in the UK’s National Poetry Competition and the Bridport Poetry Prize (twice), and Eric Gregory and Cholmondeley Awards from the Society of Authors, and has taken him on reading tours of Canada and the US, Australia, New Zealand, India, and several European countries. His work has been praised by Peter Porter, C. K. Stead, Sean O’Brien, Simon Armitage and many others. Born in 1955, he grew up in England, the son of an English father and a German mother. After studying at St. Andrews in Scotland he lived for twenty-five years in Germany, working in universities, publishing and documentary television, before returning to England in 2002 to teach at the University of Warwick. He has edited the literary quarterlies Stand, Leviathan Quarterly and (currently) The Warwick Review, co-edited the best-selling anthology The New Poetry, and in the Nineties was general editor of the Könemann literature classics series and of Arc international poets. He has translated more than sixty books from the German, among them works by Goethe, Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, and the late W. G. Sebald, bringing him plaudits from Susan Sontag and A. S. Byatt. He is a permanent judge of the Günter Grass Foundation’s biennial international literary award, the Albatross Prize. Michael Hulse’s latest publications (both 2009) are a long-awaited new book of poems, The Secret History (Arc), and a translation of Rilke’s novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Penguin Classics). |
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