Richard Berengarten
| Richard Berengarten | |
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| Born | 1943 London |
| Pen name | Richard Burns |
| Occupation | Poet, teacher, academic |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Pembroke College Cambridge, University College London |
| Notable works | In A Time of Drought, The Blue Butterfly, Under Balkan Light |
| Notable awards | Veliki školski čas award, Morava International Poetry Prize, Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize, Yeats Club Prize, Arts Council Writers' Award, Keats Memorial Prize |
| Years active | 1967 to present |
| Spouse | Melanie Rein |
| Relatives | Alexander Berengarten (father) |
| Website | |
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Richard Berengarten (born 1943) is a European poet, translator and editor. Having lived in Italy, Greece, the USA and the former Yugoslavia, his perspectives as a poet combine English, French, Mediterranean, Jewish, Slavic, American and Oriental influences. His subjects deal with historical and political material, with inner worlds, relationships and everyday life.His work is marked by its multicultural frames of reference, depth of themes, and variety of form. In the 1970s, he founded and ran the international Cambridge Poetry Festival. He has been an important presence in contemporary poetry for the past 40 years, and his work has been translated into more than 90 languages.
Richard Berengarten (also known as Richard Burns) was born in London in 1943 of Jewish immigrant parents. He was educated at Mill Hill School, and went on to study English at Pembroke College, Cambridge (1961–64) and Linguistics at University College London (1977–78).
He has lived in Italy, Greece, the UK, the USA and the former Yugoslavia, and worked extensively in the Czech Republic, Latvia, Macedonia, Poland, Slovenia and Russia.
Richard Berengarten published his first story (under the name of Richard Burns) at the age of 16 in Transatlantic Review. As a student, he wrote for Granta and co-founded the Oxbridge magazine Carcanet. He worked in Padua and Venice, briefly as apprentice to the English poet Peter Russell. In Greece, he witnessed the military coup d’état and in response wrote The Easter Rising 1967. Returning to Cambridge, he met Octavio Paz and, with Anthony Rudolf, co-edited An Octave for Octavio Paz (1972). In the same year, his first poetry collection, Double Flute won an Eric Gregory Award.
While lecturing at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) in 1975 he launched and co-ordinated the Cambridge Poetry Festival, presenting international poets like John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Ted Hughes, Michael Hamburger and numerous others.
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