George Szirtes was born in 1948 in Budapest and came to England as
a refugee in 1956. He is the author of several collections of poetry
including The Iron Clouds (1975) and An English
Apocalypse (2001). He has also written many works of translation,
including those of writers Agnes Nemes Nagy, Otto Orban and Zsuzsa
Rakovszky; books for children, including The Red-all-over Riddle
Book (1997), and a study of the work of artist Ana Maria Pacheco,
entitled Exercise of Power: The Art of Ana Maria Pacheco (2001).
George Szirtes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
in 1982 and has since won many awards for his work. His latest poetry
collection Reel (2004) was awarded the 2004 T. S. Eliot Prize
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