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Ruth Fainlight

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Ruth Fainlight (born 2 May 1931), is an English poet, short story writer, translator and librettist.

Ruth Fainlight. Courtesy Bloodaxe Books.

Ruth Fainlight. Courtesy Bloodaxe Books.

Ruth Fainlight
Born May 2 1931 (1931-05-02) (age 94)
New York City, United States
Occupation Poet, short story writer, librettist, translator

Life[]

Fainlight was born in New York City, but has lived mainly in England since she was 15, having also spent some years living in France and Spain.[1] She studied for 2 years at the Birmingham and Brighton Colleges of Arts and Crafts.[2] In addition to her own works, Fainlight has also provided criticism for BBC Radio, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and numerous other publications.

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

She was married to British writer Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010),[3][4] and has a son, David, who is a photographer for The Guardian and an adopted daughter, Susan. She lives in London.

She was a close friend of Sylvia Plath in the years leading up to Plath's death.[5]

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.

Recognition[]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Cages. London: Macmillan, 1966; New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1966.
  • To See the Matter Clearly, and other poems. London: Macmillan, 1968; Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 1969.
  • Poems (by Ruth Fainlight, Ted Hughes, & Alan Sillitoe). London: Rainbow Press, 1971.
  • Words (with Alan Sillitoe). Surrey, UK: Words Press, 1971.
  • The Region's Violence. London: Hutchinson, 1973.
  • Twenty-One Poems. London: Turret Books, 1973.
  • Another Full Moon. London: Hutchinson, 1976.
  • Two Fire Poems. Knotting, UK: Sceptre Press, 1977.
  • The Function of Tears. Sceptre, 1979.
  • Sibyls and Others. London: Hutchinson, 1980; London: Poetry Book Society, 2007.
  • Two Wind Poems. Knotting, UK: Martin Booth, 1980.
  • Fifteen to Infinity. London: Hutchinson, 1983; Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1987.
  • Climates. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe, 1983.
  • Selected Poems. London: Hutchinson, 1987; London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995.
  • Three Poems. Okeford, Dorset, UK: Words Press, 1988.
  • The Knot. London: Hutchinson, 1990.
  • Sibyls: A book of poems (with Leonard Baskin). Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1991.
  • This Time of Year. London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993.
  • Sugar-Paper Blue. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Bloodaxe Books, 1997.
  • Pomegranate (illustrated by Judith Rothchild). Reyes, France: Editions de l'Eau, 1997.
  • Burning Wire. Tarset, UK: Bloodaxe, 2002.
  • Feathers: Eight poems (illustrated by Judith Rothchild). Octon, France: Verdigris, 2002.
  • A Postcard from Tunisia (illustrated by Judith Rothchild). Octon, France: Verdigris, 2004.
  • Moon Wheels. Tarset, UK: Bloodaxe, 2006.
  • Nacre: Six poems (illustrated by Judith Rothchild). Octon, France: Verdigris, 2010.
  • New and Collected Poems. Tarset, UK: Bloodaxe, 2010.

Short fiction[]

  • Daylife and Nightlife. London: Andre Deutsch, 1971.
  • Dr. Clock's Last Case and other stories. London: Virago, 1994.

Translated[]

  • Lope de Vega, All Citizens Are Soldiers: A play in two acts [Fuenteovejuna] (translated from Spanish with Alan Sillitoe). London: Macmillan, 1969; Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 1969.
  • Poetry by Jean Joubert and Sophia de Mello Breyner (from French), included in Selected Poems, 1995.
  • Sophocles, The Theban Plays (translated with Robert J. Littman). Batimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[7]

Libretti[]

"Handbag"

"Handbag"

  • "The Dancer Hotoke" (with music by Erika Fox
  • The European Story 1993, (chamber opera, with music by Geoffrey Alvarez) * Bedlam Britannica, September 1995.

See also[]

References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ Couzyn, Jeni (1985) Contemporary Women Poets. Bloodaxe p129
  2. ↑ Ruth Fainlight, Writers, Literature, British Council. Web, Feb. 17, 2013.
  3. ↑ Alan Sillitoe obituary The Times, 26 April 2010.
  4. ↑ Alan Sillitoe obituary London Guardian, 26 April 2010.
  5. ↑ Poetry Archive
  6. ↑ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. http://www.rslit.org/content/fellows. Retrieved 8 August 2010. 
  7. ↑ Search results = au:Ruth Fainlight, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Jan. 11, 2014.

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