George Szirtes

George Szirtes, born in 1948, is a poet and translator who settled in England after his family fled the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. His translation of Satantango by László Krasznahorkai won the 2013 Best Translated Book Award, and his poetry has won many awards, including the Faber Memorial Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Bess Hokin Prize. He currently lives in Norwich.