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| Susan Bassnett is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick, in the Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, which she founded in the 1980s. She is the author of over 20 books and her Translation Studies (3rd ed. 2002) has become the most important textbook around the world in the expanding field of Translation Studies. Recent books include Studying British Cultures: An Introduction, Constructing Cultures written with André Lefevere, Postcolonial Translation written with Harish Trivedi, Exchanging Lives, a collection of poems and translations, and The Translator as Writer, co-edited with Peter Bush. She also writes columns for several national newspapers. Her book on Ted Hughes will be published in February 2008. |
| Josephine Balmer is a poet and translator, whose recent collection Chasing Catullus: Poems, Translations and Transgressions (Bloodaxe 2004), explores the border territory between these two disciplines. Other books include Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate, Sappho: Poems and Fragments and Classical Women Poets (all Bloodaxe) as well as an anthology of contemporary literature in translation, Rearranging the World. She has written widely on poetry and translation for publications such as the Observer, the Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman, and is reviews editor of the journal Modern Poetry in Translation. From 2002 to 2006 she was chair of the British Translators' Association. |
| Karen Leeder is Reader in German at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in German at New College, Oxford. She has published widely on modern German literature, especially poetry, and also translates. Recent publications include Michael Krüger, Scenes from the Life of a Best-selling Author and Raoul Schrott, The Desert of Lop and After Brecht: A Celebration. Her translations of Evelyn Schlag's Selected Poems won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2005. |
| M Wynn Thomas is Professor of English and director of CREW (Centre for Research into the English Literature and Language of Wales), University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of some 20 books, in Welsh and in English, on the two literatures of Wales and on the poetry of the USA. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the English Association and of the Academi Gymreig, and current chair of the Welsh Books Council. |
