MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s podcast for the Royal Literary Fund on the characters and personae poets meet in their writing is now available at the RLF site (http://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/wa_episode21/)
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“Other People’s Countries” by MSt tutor Patrick McGuiness is Wales Book of the Year, 2015
Other People’s Countries by MSt tutor Patrick McGuiness is the Wales Book of the Year for 2015.
Announcing the award, by Literature Wales and judged this year by Alex Clark, Tessa Hadley and Paul Henry, Paul Henry said:“The stylistic quality of this brilliant, lyrical memoir is best described through a simile from the book where a bracelet of water “doesn’t run over the stones but flexes like clear muscle over its riverbed.” It’s a poet’s prose at its best – perfectly paced, effortless in its devices. Tender, humorous, moving and, in places, profound, Other People’s Countries reminds us how great writing approaches the essence of Memory.”
Read more about this at the Wales Book of the Year site.
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MSt alumna Maya Popa wins 2015 Hippocrates Prize
MSt alumna Maya Popa has won the 2015 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.“The £5000 First Prize in the Open Category was awarded to teacher and writer Maya Catherine Popa from New York City for a poem inspired by her neuroscientist great grandfather”
Read about her and the other winners.
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MSt tutor George Szirtes shares 2015 International Man Booker Translator’s Prize
2015 International Man Book Prize winner Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai “has chosen to split the £15,000 translator’s prize between two translators, George Szirtes (who translated Satantango and The Melancholy of Resistance) and Ottilie Mulzet (who translated Seiobo There Below). Szirtes is a Hungarian-born poet who came to the UK as a refugee. He has won a number of prizes for his poetry, including the T S Eliot Prize. He has also translated Sándor Márai amongst others.”
Read more about László Krasznahorkai and the prize here.
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