Fleur Adcock ( English Fleur Adcock , February 10, 1934 , Papakura, New Zealand ) - New Zealand poet and translator, lives in the UK.
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Books
- 3 Consolidated Editions
- 4 Recognition
- 5 Translations into Russian
- 6 Literature
- 7 References
Biography
Born in a suburb of Auckland . She spent her childhood ( 1939 - 1947 ) in the UK, where she began to compose poetry at age 5. Subsequently, she studied antique literature at Queen Victoria University . She taught at the University of Otago in Dunedin . In 1952 - 1958 she was married to the poet Alistair Campbell , gave birth to two children. In 1963 she moved to the UK. She worked as a librarian in the Foreign Office (until 1979 ), and subsequently worked exclusively in literature. Translated medieval Latin poetry.
The younger sister is New Zealand writer Marilyn Duckworth .
Books
- 1964 : Eye of the Hurricane
- 1967 : Tigers
- 1971 : High Tide in the Garden
- 1974 : The Scenic Route
- 1979 : The Inner Harbor
- 1979 : Below Loughrigg
- 1986 : Hotspur: a ballad
- 1986 : The Incident Book
- 1988 : Meeting the Comet
- 1991 : Time-zones
- 1997 : Looking Back
- 2010 : Dragon Talk
Consolidated Editions
- Poems 1960-2000 . Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe Books, 2000
Recognition
Winner of the National Book Prize of New Zealand ( 1984 ), a number of other New Zealand and British literary prizes. Officer of the Order of the British Empire ( 1996 ), Companion of the Order of New Zealand For Merit ( 2008 ), Awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry ( 2006 ).
Translations into Russian
- Poems translated by Maxim Kalinin (inaccessible link)
Literature
- Stannard J. Fleur Adcock in context: from Movement to Martians. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 1997
- Wilson J. Fleur Adcock. Horndon: Northcote House Publishers Ltd, 2007