David Constantine at Durham Book Festival in 2015
David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet,
[1] author and translator.
[2]
Background
Born in
Salford , Constantine read Modern Languages at
Wadham College, Oxford , and was a Fellow of
The Queen's College , Oxford, until 2000, when he became a Supernumerary Fellow.
[3] He lectured in German at
Durham University from 1969 to 1981 and at
Oxford University from 1981 to 2000.
[4]
He was the co-editor of the literary journal
Modern Poetry in Translation . Along with the Irish poet
Bernard O'Donoghue , he is commissioning editor of the
Oxford Poets imprint of
Carcanet Press and has been a chief judge for the
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
Hölderlin ,
Brecht ,
Goethe ,
Kleist ,
Michaux and
Jaccottet .
In 2015, the film
45 Years , based on Constantine's short story "In Another Country", enjoyed critical acclaim. The film stars
Tom Courtenay and
Charlotte Rampling . Rampling was nominated for an
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
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.
^
"David Constantine wins Queen's gold medal for poetry" .
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
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