Dear colleagues,
You are warmly invited to this upcoming event at the University of
Leeds. For further details, please contact Richard Hibbitt,
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MICHAEL HULSE: A READING OF POETRY AND PROSE
WEDNESDAY 25 MAY 2011, 5.15 p.m.
MIALL LECTURE THEATRE, BAINES WING 2.34
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
The acclaimed poet and translator Michael Hulse will be reading from
his poetry and translations at Leeds on Wednesday 25 May. This is a
free event open to members of the university and to the public.
Michael’s poetry collections include Eating Strawberries in the
Necropolis (1991), Empires and Holy Lands: Poems 1976-2000 (2002) and
The Secret History (2009). He has won first prize in the National
Poetry Competition and the Bridport Poetry Prize, as well as Eric
Gregory and Cholmondeley Awards from the Society of Authors. He has
edited the magazines Stand and Leviathan Quarterly, currently edits
The Warwick Review, and is co-founder of the Hippocrates Prize, an
international award for poetry on a medical subject. He currently
teaches on the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick.
Michael is also renowned as one of the foremost translators from
German into English. He has translated more than sixty books,
including works by Goethe, Rilke, W. G. Sebald and recent Nobel Prize
winners Elfriede Jelinek and Herta Müller. He is a permanent judge of
the Günter Grass Foundation’s biennial international literary award,
the Albatross Prize.
Michael will read a selection of his recent poetry and extracts from
his recent translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Die Aufzeichnungen des
Malte Laurids Brigge, published by Penguin Classics in 2009 as The
Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. The reading will be followed by a
discussion and Michael will be happy to take questions from the
audience about his work as poet, translator and editor. There will
also be an opportunity to buy books.
Dr. Helen Finch,
Academic Fellow in German,
Department of German, Russian and Slavonic Studies,
School of Modern Languages, University of Leeds,
LS2 9JT
tel: 0113 343 33510
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