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George Szirtes (; born 29 November 1948)〔(Szirtes personal webpage )〕 is a Hungarian-born British poet, writing in English, as well as a translator from the Hungarian language into English. He has lived in the United Kingdom for most of his life. ==Life== Born in Budapest on 29 November 1948, Szirtes came to England as a refugee in 1956 aged 8. After a few days in an army camp followed by three months in an off-season boarding house on the Kent coast, along with other Hungarian refugees, his family moved to London where he was brought up and went to school, then studied Fine Art in London and Leeds.〔 Among his teachers at Leeds was the poet Martin Bell.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=George Szirtes : The Poetry Foundation )〕 His poems began appearing in national magazines in 1973 and his first book, ''The Slant Door'', was published in 1979. It won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize the following year. He has won a variety of prizes for his work, most recently the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize, for his collection ''Reel'' and the Bess Hokin Prize for poems in ''Poetry'' magazine, 2008. His translations from Hungarian poetry, fiction and drama have also won numerous awards. Szirtes lives in Wymondham, Norfolk, retiring from teaching at the University of East Anglia in 2013. He is married to the artist Clarissa Upchurch, with whom he ran ''The Starwheel Press'' and who has been responsible for most of his book jacket images. Her interest in the city of Budapest has led to over twenty years of exploration of the city, its streets, buildings and courtyards in paintings and drawings. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Szirtes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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