Michael Hale Bullock (19 April 1918 – 18 July 2008) was a British poet, novelist and translator. He was born in

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and studied at the

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. He went to Canada in 1968 as a

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at the

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, where he later taught creative writing and translation, finally retiring as emeritus professor in 1983. He translated nearly 200 literary works from French and German into English, and won many awards in the process. These included the Canada Council French Translation Award (1979) for his translation of

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's short story collection ''Stories for Late Night Drinkers'', and the inaugural

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. He was the principal English translator of Swiss playwright and novelist

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. He also published numerous works of prose and poetry under his own name. His novella ''Randolph Cranstone and the Glass Thimble'' (1977) was named British New Fiction Society Book of the Month. He was the founder of British poetry magazine ''Expression'' and editor-in-chief of ''Prism International''. He died in London.

Bibliography

Poetry

*''Transmutations'' (1938). Published under the name Michael Hale. *''Sunday Is a Day of Incest: Poems'' (1961) *''World Without Beginning, Amen!'' (1963) *''A Savage Darkness: Poems'' (1969) *''Black Wings, White Dead: Poems'' (1978) *''Lines in the Dark Wood: Poems'' (1981) *''Quadriga for Judy: Poems'' (1982) *''Prisoner of the Rain: Poems in Prose'' (1983) *''Brambled Heart: Poems'' (1985) *''Dark Water: Poems'' (1987) * ''Poems on Green Paper'' (1988) *''Vancouver Moods: Poems, Photographs'' (1989) *''Avatars of the Moon'' (1990) * ''The Secret Garden'' (1990) * ''Labyrinths: Poems from Five Cities'' (1992) * ''The Inflowing River: Poems'' (1993) *''The Sorcerer with Deadly Nightshade Eyes'' followed by ''The Foundling at the Bottom of the Well: Poems in Verse and Prose'' (1993) *''The Sorcerer with Deadly Nightshade Eyes: Poems'' (1995) *''Dark Roses: Variations on a Theme'' (1994) *''Moons and Mirrors: Poems'' (1994) *''Stone and Shadow: Poems'' (1996) *''Sonnet in Black and Other Poems'' (1998) * ''Erupting in Flowers: Poems'' (1999) *''Nocturnes: Poems of Night'' (2000) *''Wings of the Black Swan: Poems of Love and Loss'' (2001) * ''Colours: Poems'' (2003) *''Seasons: Poems of the Turning Year'' (2008)

Novels and short stories

* ''Sixteen Stories as They Happened'' (1969) *''Green Beginning, Black Ending: Fables'' (1971) * ''Randolph Cranstone and the Pursuing River: Parabolic Fictions'' (1975) *''Randolph Cranstone and the Glass Thimble: A Parabolic Fiction'' (1977) *''The Double Ego: An Autocollage'' (1985) *''The Man With Flowers Through His Hands: Fables'' (1985) *''Randolph Cranstone and the Veil of Maya: A Fable'' (1986) *''The Story of Noire'' (1987) *''Randolph Cranstone Takes the Inward Path'' followed by ''Escape to Columbine'' (1988) *''The Burning Chapel'' (1991) *''The Invulnerable Ovoid Aura and Other Stories'' (1992) *''The Walled Garden: A Fantasia'' (1992) *''Voices of the River: A Rhapsody'' (1995)

Plays

* ''The Raspberry Picker'' (1967) *''Not to Hong Kong'' (1972) *''The Island Abode of Bliss'' (1972) *''The Coats'' (1975) *''Sokotra: A Play in Three Acts'' (1997)

Selected translations

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: ''The Thirtieth Year'' *

Joseph Breitbach Joseph Breitbach (1903–1980) was a French-German playwright, novelist and journalist. He was born in Koblenz and died in Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of ...

: ''Report on Bruno'' * André Carpentier: ''Bread of the Birds'' *André Carpentier: ''The Conqueror's Night'' *

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: ''Marc Chagall'' *

: '' The Fire Raisers'' * Max Frisch: ''

I'm Not Stiller ''I'm Not Stiller'' (German title: ''Stiller'') is a novel by Swiss author Max Frisch, which was published in 1954. The theme of the novel, the question of identity, is a recurring theme in the work of Frisch. The narrator, travelling on an Ame ...

'' * Max Frisch: ''

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'' *Max Frisch: ''

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'' *Max Frisch: '' A Wilderness of Mirrors'' (reprinted as ''Gantenbein'') *Dr. Paul Hermann: ''Conquest By Man'' (German ''Sieben vorbei und acht verweht'') 1955Der Roman "7 vorbei 8 verweht" von Dr. Paul Herrmann (Hoffmann und Campe Verlag Hamburg) wurde vom mächtigen amerikanischen "Book-of-the-Month-Club" für März 1955 als "Buch des Monats" angenommen.
"Damit ist dem deutschen Autor eine Riesenauflage der amerikanischen Übersetzung seines Buches sicher. Mit der Buchklub-Annahme verbunden ist außerdem eine Summe von 50 000 Dollar, die zur Hälfte an den amerikanischen Verleger und zur Hälfte an den Verfasser geht. Dr. Herrmann ist der erste binnendeutsche Autor, der nach dem Kriege vom "Book-of-the-Month-Club" gekürt wurde." *

E. T. A. Hoffmann Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (born Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann; 24 January 1776 – 25 June 1822) was a German Romantic author of fantasy and Gothic horror, a jurist, composer, music critic and artist. Penrith Goff, "E.T.A. Hoffmann" in E ...

: ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' *Willibald Klinke: ''Kant for Everyman'' *

Siegfried Lenz Siegfried Lenz (; 17 March 19267 October 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's bi ...

: ''The Lightship'' *

: ''Stories for Late Night Drinkers'' * Michel Tremblay: ''The City in the Egg'' *

Wilhelm Worringer Wilhelm Robert Worringer (13 January 1881 in Aachen – 29 March 1965 in Munich) was a German art historian known for his theories about abstract art and its relation to avant-garde movements such as German Expressionism. Through his influence on t ...

: ''Abstraction And Empathy''

References

External links

Michael Bullock fonds at UBC Library
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bullock, Michael German–English translators 1918 births 2008 deaths 20th-century British translators British expatriates in Canada