Pavel Å rut
Pavel Å rut (born 3 April 1940 in Prague) is a Czech poet and writer.
Career
After graduating in 1967 from the Charles University in Prague where he studied English and Spanish, Å rut worked as an editor in a publishing house. Since 1972, he is a freelance writer and translator. Together with poets such as Ivan Wernisch and Petr KabeÅ¡, Å rut belongs to the famous generation of Czech poets who published their first books in the 1960s. Like so many of his contemporaries, he was not allowed to publish books of his poems during the Soviet occupation, except for books for children. His work is often done together with an award-winning Czech painter and illustrator Galina MiklÃnová (e. g. Verunka a kokosový dÄ›dek (2004) which is included on the IBBY list, as is his 1992 book KoÄiÄà král which is a collection of English, Irish, Scottish and Welsh fairy-tales) and lyrics for Czech musicians like Petr Skoumal, and Framus Five.
Apart from his celebrated poetry and books for children, he is also a translator from English and Spanish. His translations include books of Dylan Thomas, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Leonard Cohen, John Updike, Federico GarcÃa Lorca, and others.
Å rut lives in Zdice.
Western Michigan University offers the Pavel Å rut Poetry Fellowship in their Prague Summer program,[1] where Å rut appears sometimes as a guest or guest faculty member.[2]
Bibliography
Poetry
- Noc plná kÅ™Ãdel (1964)
- Přehlásky (1967)
- ÄŒervotoÄivé svÄ›tlo (1969)
- Malá domů (1989)
- Přestupný duben (1989)
- Kolej Yesterday (1990) (a collection of his lyrics)
- Cadus rotundus - Sud kulatý (with Eugen Brikcius) (1993)
- Zlá milá (1997)
- Brožované básně (2000) - for these two books he was awarded the prestigious Jaroslav Seifert Prize in 2000
- PapÃrové polobotky (2001)
Essays
- Konzul v afrikánech (1998)
For children (selection)
- PavouÄek Pája (2001)
- Veliký tůdle (2003)
- Verunka a kokosový dědek (2004)
- PÅ™ÃÅ¡erky a pÅ™ÃÅ¡eÅ™i (2005)
- Å iÅ¡atý Å¡vec a myÅ¡ut (2008) (all five with G. MiklÃnová)
References
- ↑ "PSP Scholarships & Fellowships". Western Michigan University. Retrieved September 22, 2012.
- ↑ "Faculty and Guest Biographies". Western Michigan University. Retrieved September 22, 2012.
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