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George Szirtes

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George Szirtes

Hungary United Kingdom

George Szirtes is a poet and translator. He was born in Budapest in 1948 and came to England as a refugee in 1956, following the Hungarian Uprising. His thirteen books of poetry, which include New and Collected Poems (2008), have won the Faber Prize, the Cholmondeley Award, and a number of other awards. His 2004 book Reel was awarded the T. S. Eliot Prize....

He has also won various prizes as a translator of poetry and fiction from the Hungarian. His earlier translations from László Krasznahorkai include The Melancholy of Resistance (1999) and War and War (2005).

From “El último lobo”

By László Krasznahorkai

He was doing nothing, not a damn thing, simply drifting, spending hours sitting in the Sparschwein with his first glass of Sternburg at his side [ . . . ]

Translated from Hungarian by George Szirtes

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George Szirtes

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From “El último lobo”