The latest event in the continuing seminar series at the Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing will feature distinguished poet and MSt tutor, George Szirtes.

Foreign Man Speaks With Forked Tongue: on writing in one’s second language, translating from one’s first and what happens in between.

George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948 and came to England with his family in 1956 as a refugee. He has won many prizes for his poetry, including  the Faber Prize, the T S Eliot Prize and The King’s Gold Medal for Poetry. He was jointly awarded the International Booker for his translations of Nobel prizewinner László Krasznahorkai. The Photographer at Sixteen (2019) is Szirtes’ memoir of his mother, which won the James Tate Black Memorial Prize. He has also written three books of poetry for children.

Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan

Mawby Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road

5.00 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm

https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/kellogg-centres/centre-for-creative-writing/

All are welcome and no bookings are necessary