Alistair Elliot
Alistair Elliot (born 13 October 1932 Liverpool) is a British poet and translator.
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Life
He was born in Liverpool, son of a Scottish family doctor and an English mother, and educated at Asheville School, Asheville, North Carolina, Fettes College, Edinburgh, and Christ Church, Oxford.[1]
He was a vegetable invoice clerk in Covent Garden market, night sterilizer in a food factory, waiter, film critic, supply teacher, actor (with the English Children's Theatre under Caryl Jenner) and finally librarian in Kensington, Keele, Shiraz, and lastly at Newcastle University.[2]
His translation of Euripides' Medea was performed in theatres in London and New York in a production by Jonathan Kent with Diana Rigg in the leading rôle.
His poems have appeared in Oxford Poetry,[3] The Paris Review,[4] and many other journals.
Awards
- 2000 Cholmondeley Award
Works
Poetry
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- On the Appian Way, 1984
- Talking Back, 1982
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- Contentions, 1977
- Air in the Wrong Place, 1968
Translation
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References
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- ↑ http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/30
