Ruth Fainlight

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birthdate = 1931
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occupation = Poet
short story writer
librettist
translator
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Ruth Fainlight (born 1931, New York City), is a poet, short story writer, translator and librettist.

Fainlight was born in New York, but has mainly lived in England since she was fifteen, having also spent some years living in France and Spain. She is married to the writer Alan Sillitoe and lives in London. In addition to her own works, Fainlight has also provided criticism for BBC Radio, "Times Literary Supplement", "The Guardian", and numerous other publications.

Her son David Sillitoe is a photographer for "The Guardian".

She has twice been Poet in Residence at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee.

Publications

Poetry

* "Cages". 1966.
* "To See the Matter Clearly" 1968 from Macmillan UK; Dufour Editions, USA
* "The Region's Violence". 1973.
* "Another Full Moon". 1976.
* "Sibyls and Others". 1980. New edition, Poetry Book Society, 2007
* "Fifteen to Infinity". 1983. Also published 1987, Carnegie-Mellon University Press USA
* "Selected Poems". 1987.
* "The Knot" 1990. from Hutchinson or CenturyHutchinson, UK
* "Climates". Bloodaxe Books UK, 1983.
* "This Time of Year". 1994.
* "Selected Poems". Updated new edition, Sinclair-Stevenson UK, 1995.
* "Sugar-Paper Blue". Bloodaxe Books UK, Dufour Editions USA, 1997.
**Shortlisted for 1998 Whitbread Poetry Prize
* "Burning Wire". Bloodaxe Books UK, Dufour Editions USA, 2002.
* "Moon Wheels". Bloodaxe Books, 2006. Dufour Editions USA, 2007

Books

* "Sibyls". Gehenna Press USA, 1991, with woodcuts by Leonard Baskin.
* "Pomegranate". Editions de l`Eau, Ceret, France, 1997, mezzotints by Judith Rothchild
* "Leaves/Feuilles", Editions Verdigris, Octon, France, 1998. Bi-lingual, French/English, tr. M. Duclos; mezzotints by Judith Rothchild
* "Feathers", Editions Verdigris, France, 2002. Mezzotints by Judith Rothchild
* "Sheba and Solomon". Pratt Contemporary Art, UK, 2004. Drypoints by Ana Maria Pacheco

hort stories

* "Daylife and Nightlife". Andre Deutsch UK, 1971.
* "Dr. Clock's Last Case". Virago Books UK, 1994.

Translations

* Lope de Vega, "All Citizens Are Soldiers". Macmillan UK, 1966. Tr. from Spanish (original title: "Fuenteovejuna") with Alan Sillitoe
* "Navigations" 1983, Casa da Moeda, Portugal and Marine Rose 1987, Black Swan USA, poems, from Portuguese of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
* Selection of poems by Jean Joubert, from French, included in "Selected Poems", 1995
* Sophocles, "The Theban Trilogy". Translated with Robert Littman, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press, USA

Poetry collections in translation

* "La Verità sulla Sibilla" 2003, tr. from Italian. Alessandra Schiavinato and Paolo Ruffilli, published by Edizioni del Leone, Venice, Italy
* "Visitação" 1995, edited by Ana Hatherly, Quetzal Editores, Lisbon, Portugal
* "Encore la Pleine Lune" 1997, tr. M.Duclos & J.Joubert, Editions Federop, Eglise-Neuve d'Issac, France
* "Leaves/Feuilles" 1998, tr. M.Duclos, Editions Verdigris, Octon, France
* "Bleu Papier-Sucre" 2000, tr. M.Duclos, Les Amis de la Poésie, Bergerac, France
* "Plumas (Feathers)" (in English and Spanish) published by Editorial 'El Tucan de Virginia', Mexico City, Mexico, 2005.
* "Poemas" 2000, tr. B.Varela, L.Graves, M.Negroni, J.Capriata, M.Lauer Editorial Pequeña Venecia, Caracas, Venezuela
* 'Autorul La Rampa' 2007, tr. Lidia Vianu, Univers Enciclopedic, Bucharest, Romania

Poems in translation

The poem "Sugar-Paper Blue" was translated into Russian by Marina Boroditskaya and is published in the April 2003 issue of the Moscow monthly "Inostrannaya Literatura" ("Foreign Literature").

The poem sequence "Sheba and Solomon" has been translated into Russian by Marina Boroditskaya and published in Moscow in the literary magazine "Novaya Younost" in 2003.

Libretti

* "The Dancer Hotoke" 1991, composer Erika Fox (nominated for the 1992 Laurence Olivier Awards)
* "The European Story" 1993, chamber opera, composer Geoffrey Alvarez (Based on poem of the same name). Both works above were commissioned by the Royal Opera House for their 'Garden Venture' program in 1991 and 1993)
* "Bedlam Britannica" September 1995.

Awards and honours

* Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, 1994
* Hawthornden Fellowship, 1987
* Fellow of Royal Society of Literature, 2007

References

* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth01K23Q441812620571 British Council biography at Contemporary Writers]