Les Murray (poet)

Leslie Allan Murray AO ( born October 17, 1938 in Nabiac, New South Wales) is an Australian poet and literary critic.

Life and work

Murray went in 1957 to the University of Sydney to study modern languages. There he converted to the Catholic faith. He became a professional translator with no college degree. From 1969 he devoted himself to literature, after he had traveled some time and had made ​​up his degree. For his poetry, which has been translated into ten languages ​​, he received several major literary awards, including the 1995 Petrarch Prize and the 1996 TS Eliot Prize. With his works Learning Human ( 2000), and Conscious & Verbal (2001) he was nominated in 2001 and 2002 for the International Griffin Poetry Prize. He was also honored in 1989 with the title Officer of the Order of Australia for his services to Australian literature. Les Murray also published the magazine Poetry Australia and worked as literary editor of the journal Quadrant.

Poetics

In his poetry designs of poets, such as Andreas Dorschel formulated " panoramas of destruction. Les Murray Australia is a deprived by tourism and business secrets of his country. Machinery and animals are the two poles of its landscape. Prior to the violence remains only the word, named ".

German -speaking reception

Some of Les Murray's works have also been published as a literary translations into German, as translations of Thomas Eichhorn 2004 Ammann publishing the epic poem Fredy Neptune and Margitt Lehbert in their edition Rugerup as bilingual publications in 2006 poems, great as photos, 2007 Translation from the Nature, 2011 Bigger lying down, 2012 The Black dog. A memorandum on the depression ( monolingual ) and in 2008 the publisher Thomas Reche the poetry collection Lost with etchings by Susanne Theumer.

Title

  • The Ilex Tree ( 1965) ( with Geoffrey Lehmann) - poems
  • The Weatherboard Cathedral ( 1969) - poems
  • Poems Against Economics ( 1972)
  • Lunch and Counter Lunch (1974 )
  • The Vernacular Republic Selected Poems (1976 )
  • Ethnic Radio ( 1978) - poems
  • The Peasant Mandarin (1978 ) - prose
  • The Boys Who Stole the Funeral (1980 ) - Roman
  • Equanimities (1982 ) - poems
  • The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981 (1982 )
  • The People's Otherworld (1983 ) - poems
  • Persistence in Folly (1984 ) - poems
  • The Daylight Moon (1987 ) - poems
  • The Idyll Wheel ( 1989) - poems
  • Dog Fox Field ( 1990) - poems
  • Blocks and Tackles (1990 ) - poems
  • The Rabbiter 's Bounty (1991 )
  • Translations from the Natural World ( 1992) - poems
  • Subhuman Redneck Poems (1996 )
  • A Working Forest (1997) - prose
  • Fredy Neptune (1998) - epic poem
  • Learning Human ( 2000) - poems
  • Conscious & Verbal (2001) - poems
  • Poems the Size of Photographs (2002) - poems
  • Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression 96 pp. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York City 2011, ISBN 978-0374181062

Appeared on German

  • Fredy Neptune. A novel in verse. Translated by Thomas Eichhorn. Ammann, Zurich 2004. ISBN 978-3250104759
  • Holy Cows - Holy cows. Poems, bilingual. Translated by Margitt Lehbert. With drawings by John Beyerle. ISBN 978-91-89034-14-3
  • Poems, great as photos. Poems, bilingual. Translated by Margitt Lehbert. Edition Rugerup, Hörby / Sweden 2006, ISBN 978-91-89034-09-9
  • Translations from nature. Poems, bilingual. Translated by Margitt Lehbert. Edition Rugerup, Hörby / Sweden 2007, ISBN 978-91-89034-15-0
  • Translations from Nature. Audio CD. Edition Rugerup, Hörby / Sweden 2007, ISBN 978-91-89034-23-5
  • Lost. Poems, bilingual. Translated by Margitt Lehbert. With etchings by Susanne Theumer. Limited edition. Publisher Thomas Reche, Neumarkt 2008, ISBN 978-3-929566-76-5
  • Greater than lying down. Poems, bilingual. Translated by Margitt Lehbert. Edition Rugerup, Hörby / Sweden 2011. ISBN 978-3-942955-04-1
  • The Black Dog. A memorandum on the depression. Essay and poems. Edition Rugerup, Hörby / Sweden 2012, ISBN 978-3-942955-13-3
  • From a lake of verses. Hundred selected poems of Les Murray. Translated by Margitt Lehbert. Edition Rugerup, Hörby / Sweden 2014, ISBN 978-3-942955-39-3
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