David Constantine

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David Constantine at Durham Book Festival in 2015

David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet,[1] short story writer, novelist, and translator.[2]

Life and career

Born in Salford, Constantine read Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford, and was a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, until 2000, when he became a Supernumerary Fellow.[3] He lectured in German at Durham University from 1969 to 1981 and at Oxford University from 1981 to 2000.[4]

He was the co-editor of the literary journal Modern Poetry in Translation. Along with the Irish poet Bernard O'Donoghue, he is commissioning editor of the Oxford Poets imprint of Carcanet Press and has been a chief judge for the T. S. Eliot Prize.[5]

His collections of poetry include Madder, Watching for Dolphins, Caspar Hauser, The Pelt of Wasps, Something for the Ghosts, Collected Poems and Nine Fathom Deep. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2020.[6][7]

He is a translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux and Jaccottet. In 2024 he published A Bird Called Elaeus, his translation and arrangement of poems from the Greek Anthology.[8] He won the Popescu Prize for translation in 2003[9] and was shortlisted in 2015.[10]

Constantine has published seven collections of short stories. In 2013, his collection Tea at the Midland and Other Stories won the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, making Constantine the first English writer to win this award.[11] The title story from this collection won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2010.[12] His other collections of short stories include Under the Dam (2005),[13] The Shieling (2009),[14] which was shortlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award,[15] and The Dressing-Up Box and Other Stories (2019).[16]

In 2015, the film 45 Years, based on Constantine's short story "In Another Country", was released. The film stars Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling. The film won the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival[17] and Best British/Irish Film at the London Film Critics' Circle awards.[18] Rampling was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.[19]

Constantine is also author of two novels, Davies and The Life-Writer, and a biography, Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton.

Awards and honours

Bibliography

Poetry

  • A Brightness to Cast Shadows (1980), Bloodaxe Books, Template:Isbn
  • Watching for Dolphins (1983)
  • Selected Poems (1991)
  • Caspar Hauser (1994)
  • The Pelt of Wasps (1998)
  • Something for the Ghosts (2002)
  • Nine Fathoms Deep (2009)
  • Elder(2014)
  • Belongings (2020)

Short stories

  • Back at the Spike (1994)
  • Under the Dam (2005)
  • The Shieling (2009)
  • Tea at the Midland and Other Stories (2012)
  • In Another Country: Selected Stories (2015)
  • The Dressing-Up Box and Other Stories (2019)
  • Rivers of the Unspoilt World (2022)

Novels

  • Davies (1985)
  • The Life-Writer (2015)

Criticism

  • Early Greek Travellers and the Hellenic Ideal (1984)
  • Poetry: The Literary Agenda (2013)

Translations

  • Bertolt Brecht: The Antigone of Sophocles
  • The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht (translated with Tom Kuhn)
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Lighter than Air
  • Hans Magnus Enzensberger: New Selected Poems
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, Part 1
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust, Part 2
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Elective Affinities
  • Friedrich Hölderlin: Sophocles: Oedipus and Antigone
  • Friedrich Hölderlin: Selected Poems
  • Philippe Jaccottet: Under Clouded Skies & Beauregard (translated with Mark Treharne)
  • Heinrich von Kleist: Selected Writings
  • Henri Michaux: Spaced, Displaced (translated with Helen Constantine)
  • A Bird Called Elaeus: poems for here and now from The Greek Anthology

Reviews

  • Hearn, Sheila G. (1981), review of A Brightness to Cast Shadows, in Murray, Glen (ed.), Cencrastus No. 5, Summer 1981, pp. 51

References

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  1. ^ Carol Rumens, "Poem of the week: Frieze by David Constantine", The Guardian, 22 June 2009.
  2. ^ Katherine Bucknell, "The Boys in Berlin: Auden's Secret Poems", The New York Times, 4 November 1990.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Supernumerary Fellows". The Queen's College Website. Archived from the original on 21 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bloodaxe Profile". Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
  5. ^ Louise Jury, "Judges in rapture as poet Duffy wins T S Eliot Prize", The Independent, 17 January 2006.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2020". Royal.UK. 16 December 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Flood, Alison (18 December 2020). "David Constantine wins Queen's gold medal for poetry". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Book Review: Truth is Concrete". Morning Star Online. 3 December 2024. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Early winners". The Poetry Society. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize shortlist announced". European Literature Network. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Comma's Constantine wins Frank O'Connor award". The Bookseller. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Page, Benedicte (29 November 2010). "National Short Story award goes to David Constantine". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Byatt, A. S. (17 June 2005). "On the Cusp". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Shieling, by David Constantine". The Independent. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Flood, Alison (9 July 2010). "US writers dominate Frank O'Connor award shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sansom, Ian (31 October 2019). "The Dressing-Up Box and Other Stories by David Constantine – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 January 2025.
  17. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Pulver, Andrew (26 June 2015). "45 Years scoops Edinburgh film festival's top award". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  18. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kate Winslet adds to awards tally with London Critics prize". BBC. 18 January 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
  19. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Oscar Nominations: The Complete List". The Hollywood Reporter. 14 January 2016.
  20. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Constantine, David". Royal Society of Literature. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
  21. ^ Liz Bury, "David Constantine comes in from the periphery to win Frank O'Connor award", The Guardian, 1 July 2013.
  22. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."David Constantine wins Queen's gold medal for poetry". The Guardian. 18 December 2020.

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