Ian Crockatt (born 1949) is a Scottish poet and translator. He was born in

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and now lives in

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. He has published several volumes of poetry including ''Flood Alert'' (Chapman, 1996), ''Original Myths'' (Cruachan, 2000; shortlisted for the Scottish Book of the Year Award), and ''The Lyrical Beast'' (Salix, 2004). His recent work ''Skald'' (Koo Press, 2009) explores the forms of

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/ref> As a translator, Crockatt won the

Schlegel-Tieck Prize The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation is a literary translation award given by the Society of Authors in London. Translations from the German original into English are considered for the prize. The value of the prize is £3,000.

for his translation of

Rainer Maria Rilke René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 – 29 December 1926), shortened to Rainer Maria Rilke (), was an Austrian poet and novelist. He has been acclaimed as an idiosyncratic and expressive poet, and is widely recogni ...

's poetry, published in 2012 under the title ''Pure Contradiction''. He is pursuing a PhD at

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's Centre for Scandinavian Studies; his doctoral thesis is on translating skaldic verse from the Orkneyinga Saga.

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