Michael Hulse is an English

England

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 translator, critic

Critic

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, and poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

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Life and Works

Hulse has translated over sixty books from the German, among them works by Goethe, Rilke, and Jakob Wassermann

Jakob Wassermann

Jakob Wassermann was a Jewish-German writer and novelist.- Life :Born in Fürth, Wassermann was the son of a shopkeeper and lost his mother at an early age. He showed literary interest early and published various pieces in small newspapers...

. He is nowadays most familiar as the translator of three of W. G. Sebald

W. G. Sebald

W. G. Maximilian Sebald was a German writer and academic. At the time of his death at the age of 57, he was being cited by many literary critics as one of the greatest living authors and had been tipped as a possible future winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature...

's books: The Emigrants

The Emigrants (novel)

The Emigrants is a 1992 novel by German writer W. G. Sebald. It won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize, and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal.-Plot introduction:...

, The Rings of Saturn and Vertigo. In addition, he has translated two works by Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that, with extraordinary linguistic zeal, reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power."-...

, Lust and Wonderful, Wonderful Times and has collaborated in translating one by Nobel Laureate Herta Müller

Herta Müller

Herta Müller is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime which she experienced herself...

, The Appointment.

Hulse has edited the Könemann Literature Classics series and co-edited the Bloodaxe

Bloodaxe Books

Bloodaxe Books is a British publishing house specialising in poetry.-History:It was founded in 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne by Neil Astley, who is still editor and managing director. Joined in 1982 by chairman Simon Thirsk, Astley was later awarded an honorary D.Litt by Newcastle University in 1995...

 anthology The New Poetry. His selected poems, Empires and Holy Lands: Poems 1976-2000, appeared in 2002 and another collection, 'The Secret History' was published in 2009. He used to run 'Leviathan' poetry press and its subsidiary magazine 'Leviathan Quarterly'. Hulse has a trademark of wearing "wonky glasses"(stated by Lewis Buckland in his biography, published 1991 )

He teaches short fiction and poetry in the Creative Writing Programme of the Department of English at the University of Warwick

University of Warwick

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, as well as in the English and Comparative Literature degrees.

Poetry

1. Knowing and Forgetting (1981) (ISBN 0-436-20965-9)
2. Propaganda (1985) (ISBN 0-436-20966-7)
3. Eating Strawberries in the Necropolis (1991) (ISBN 0-00-272076-0)
4. Mother of Battles (1991)
5. Monteverdi’s Photographs (1995).
6. Empires and Holy Lands: Poems 1976-2000 (2002) (ISBN 1-876857-46-3)
7. The Secret History (2009) (ISBN 978-1-906570-24-8 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-906570-25-5 (hardback))

Translations

1. Lust by Elfriede Jelinek (1993) (ISBN 1-85242-183-5)
2. Wonderful, Wonderful Times by Elfriede Jelinek (1990) (ISBN 1-85242-168-1)
3. The Emigrants by W. G. Sebald (1997) (ISBN 0-8112-1366-8)
4. The Rings of Saturn by W. G. Sebald (1998) (ISBN 0-8112-1413-3)
5. Vertigo by W. G. Sebald (2000) (ISBN 0-8112-1430-3)
6. The Appointment (with Philip Boehm) by Herta Müller
   Herta Müller
   Herta Müller is a Romanian-born German novelist, poet and essayist noted for her works depicting the effects of violence, cruelty and terror, usually in the setting of Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauşescu regime which she experienced herself...
   
    (2001) (ISBN 978-0-312-42054-3)

Edited

1. The new poetry, with David Kennedy and David Morley (Bloodaxe Books, 1993) (ISBN 1-85224-244-2)

Miscellaneous

1. Charles Simic in conversation with Michael Hulse (2002) (ISBN 1-903291-03-8)

See also

• Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
  Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine
  The Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine was founded in 2009 by Donald Singer, a clinical professor, and poet and translator Michael Hulse...