Herbert Lomas (7 February 1924 – 9 September 2011) was a British poet and translator. He served in the infantry from 1943 to 1946).Profile of Herbert Lomas
He then graduated from

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, and taught at the

University of Helsinki The University of Helsinki ( fi, Helsingin yliopisto, sv, Helsingfors universitet, abbreviated UH) is a public research university located in Helsinki, Finland since 1829, but founded in the city of Turku (in Swedish ''Åbo'') in 1640 as the ...

and

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. Lomas was a "prolific translator" from Finnish. In Finland, Lomas was married to Anna-Liisa Partanen (née Aatila) from 28 July 1956 to 29 May 1968. They had no children together but Lomas was stepfather to Anna-Liisa's four children. Later, Lomas married Mary Marshall Phelps on 29 June 1968; they had one son and one daughter.Info re marriage and children
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Awards

* Guinness Poetry Competition * 1982

Cholmondeley Award The Cholmondeley Awards () are annual awards for poetry given by the Society of Authors in the United Kingdom. Awards honour distinguished poets, from a fund endowed by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley in 1966. Since 1991 the award has be ...

* Knight, First Class, of the

Order of the White Rose of Finland The Order of the White Rose of Finland ( fi, Suomen Valkoisen Ruusun ritarikunta; sv, Finlands Vita Ros’ orden) is one of three official orders in Finland, along with the Order of the Cross of Liberty, and the Order of the Lion of Finland. ...

Works

Poetry

* ''Chimpanzees are blameless creatures'', Mandarin Books, 1969 * ''Who needs Money?'', Blond and Briggs, 1972 * ''Private and confidential'', London Magazine Editions, 1974 * ''Public Footpath'', Anvil Press, 1981 * ''Fire in the garden''

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, 1984 * ''Letters in the Dark''

, 1986 * ''Trouble''

Sinclair-Stevenson Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd is a British publisher founded in 1989 by Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson. Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson became an editor at Hamish Hamilton Hamish Hamilton Limited was a British book publishing house, founded in 1931 ...

, 1992 * ''Selected Poems''

, 1995, * ''A Useless Passion'' London Magazine Editions, 1999 * ''The Vale of Todmorden''

Arc Publications Arc Publications, also known as Arc, is an independent publishing house in the UK, publishing contemporary poetry from new and established writers from the UK and abroad, specialising in the work of international poets writing in English and the ...

, 2003, * ''A Casual Knack of Living – Collected Poems''

, 2009,

Translations

* ''Territorial Song'', ''London Magazine Editions'', 1981 * ''Contemporary Finnish Poetry'', Bloodaxe Books, 1991, * ''Fugue'' by Kai Nieminen. ''Musta Taide'', Helsinki, 1992 * ''Wings of Hope and Daring'', 1992 * ''Wings of the Fingertips are Opening'' by

Leena Krohn Leena Krohn (born February 28, 1947 in Helsinki) is a Finnish author. Her large and varied body of work includes novels, short stories, children's books, and essays. In her books she deals with topics that include man's relationship with himself a ...

. ''Musta Taide'', Helsinki, 1993 * ''The Black and the Red'' by Ilpo Tiihonen. ''Making Waves'', 1993 * ''Narcissus in Winter'' by Risto Ahti, ''Making Waves'', 1994 * ''The Year of the Hare'' by

Arto Paasilinna Arto Tapio Paasilinna (, approximately ; 20 April 1942 – 15 October 2018) was a Finnish writer, being a former journalist turned comic novelist. One of Finland's most successful novelists,exVirtual Finland, 2007 Archived at Wayback Machine. he w ...

. Peter Owen, 1995 * ''Two Sequences for Kuhmo'' by Lauri Otonkoski & Kuhmon Kamarimusikin. ''Kannatusyhdistys RY'', 1994 * ''Eeva-Liisa Manner: Selected Poems'', ''Making Waves'', 1997 * ''Three Finnish Poets'', London Magazine Editions, 1999 * ''A Tenant Here: Selected Poems of Pentti Holappa''. Dedalus Press, 1999 * ''Gaia, a Musical for Children'' by Ilpo Tiihonen. Suomen Kansallisteatteri, 2000
''Troll: a love story''
by

Johanna Sinisalo Aila Johanna Sinisalo is a Finnish science fiction and fantasy writer. She studied comparative literature and drama, amongst other subjects, at the University of Tampere. Professionally she worked in the advertising business, rising to the leve ...

. Grove Press, 2004,

References

External links

"Author's website"
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