Autor/-in: Harry Guest

Harry Guest was born in Penarth in 1932. He read Modern Languages at Cambridge and wrote a thesis on Mallarmé at the Sorbonne before beginning a career as a teacher in schools and universities in Japan and England. With his wife, Lynn, a historical novelist, he now lives in Exeter. His Collected Poems, A Puzzling Harvest, was published by Anvil in 2002. A further collection, Some Times, appeared in 2010, while a mixed volume of translations and original work, Comparisons & Conversions, appeared from Shearsman in 2008. His many other translations include a selected Victor Hugo (2002) and Post-War Japanese Poetry (Penguin, with Lynn Guest and Kajima Shôzô, 1972). He is also the author of three novels and a number of translations from French, German and Japanese.