David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet, [1] short story writer, novelist, and translator. [2]
David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet, [1] short story writer, novelist, and translator. [2]
Born in Salford, Constantine read Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford, and was a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, until 2000, when he became a Supernumerary Fellow. [3] He lectured in German at Durham University from 1969 to 1981 and at Oxford University from 1981 to 2000. [4]
He was the co-editor of the literary journal Modern Poetry in Translation . Along with the Irish poet Bernard O'Donoghue, he is commissioning editor of the Oxford Poets imprint of Carcanet Press and has been a chief judge for the T. S. Eliot Prize. [5]
His collections of poetry include Madder, Watching for Dolphins, Caspar Hauser, The Pelt of Wasps, Something for the Ghosts, Collected Poems and Nine Fathom Deep. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2020. [6] [7]
He is a translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux and Jaccottet. In 2024 he published A Bird Called Elaeus, his translation and arrangement of poems from the Greek Anthology. [8] He won the Popescu Prize for translation in 2003 [9] and was shortlisted in 2015. [10]
Constantine is an award-winning short-story writer. In 2013, Tea at the Midland and Other Stories won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, making Constantine the first English writer to win this award. [11] The title story from this collection won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2010. [12] His other collections of short stories include Back at the Spike, the highly acclaimed Under the Dam (2005), [13] The Shieling (2009), [14] and The Dressing-Up Box and Other Stories (2019). [15]
In 2015, the film 45 Years , based on Constantine's short story "In Another Country", enjoyed critical acclaim. The film stars Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling. Rampling was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.
Constantine is also author of two novels, Davies and The Life-Writer, and a biography, Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton.
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