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Adès, Timothy
Timothy Adès was born in 1941 and has degrees in classics and international business. He translates mainly French, German and Spanish poems into English, tending to work with rhyme and metre.
He has written 9 books to date, translating Robert Desnos, Victor Hugo, Jean Cassou, Alfonso Reyes, and Alberto Arvelo Torrelba. Other favourites are Brecht, Sikelianós, Nerval, Louise Labé, Ricarda Huch, Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Hans/Jean Arp.
He was a King’s Scholar at Eton College, won the Newcastle Scholarship in 1959 and then attended Balliol College, Oxford and INSEAD, Fontainebleau. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Trustee of Agenda poetry magazine.
His awards include the John Dryden Prize and the TLS Premio Valle–Inclán Prize.