Timothy Adès (born 1941) is an English poet and translator.

Biography

Adès was born in

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, Surrey. He is of Syrian Jewish origin. He was educated as a King's Scholar at

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, where he won the

Newcastle Scholarship The Newcastle Scholarship is an annual prize awarded at Eton College in England for the highest performance in a series of special written examinations taken over the course of a week. It was instituted and first awarded in 1829 and is the colle ...

in 1959, at

Balliol College, Oxford Balliol College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded in 1263 by nobleman John I de Balliol, it has a claim to be the oldest college in Oxford and the English-speaking world. With a governing body of a master and aro ...

and at

INSEAD INSEAD ( ; French: ''Institut européen d'administration des affaires'') is a non-profit business school with locations in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE) and North America (San Francisco, USA ...

, Fontainebleau. He has studied both classics and business. In 1963, during his time at Balliol, he was part of the team that reached the final of the first series of ''

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'', losing to Leicester University. As a translator, he works mainly with French, German and Spanish rhymed poems, translating them into English. His wife is the art historian Professor Dawn Adès, CBE, FBA. Composer

Thomas Adès Thomas Joseph Edmund Adès (born 1 March 1971) is a British composer, pianist and conductor. Five compositions by Adès received votes in the 2017 Classic Voice poll of the greatest works of art music since 2000: ''The Tempest (opera), The T ...

is one of their three sons.

Career

He is a past winner of the John Dryden Prize with Victor Hugo's ''Moscow, Waterloo, St Helena'' and the TLS Premio Valle-Inclán PrizeValle-Inclán Past Winners
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Bibliography

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romanticism, Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician. His most famous works are the novels ''The Hunchbac ...

, ''How to be a Grandfather'' * Jean Cassou, ''33 Sonnets of the Resistance'' * Jean Cassou, ''The Madness of Amadis'' *

, ''The Big Story of the Lion'' * Alberto Arvelo Torrealba, ''Florentino and the Devil'' *

Robert Desnos Robert Desnos (; 4 July 1900 – 8 June 1945) was a French poet who played a key role in the Surrealist movement. Early life Robert Desnos was born in Paris on 4 July 1900, the son of a licensed dealer in game and poultry at the '' Halles'' ma ...

, ''Storysongs/Chantefables'' *

, ''Surrealist, Lover, Resistant'' *

William Shakespeare William Shakespeare ( 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...

, ''Loving by Will'' * Ricarda Huch, ''Autumn Fire'' (Poetry Salzburg, November 2024)

References

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