{"id":8139,"date":"2025-03-11T10:23:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8139"},"modified":"2025-06-12T16:56:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:56:46","slug":"david-constantine","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/david-constantine\/","title":{"rendered":"David Constantine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Constantine is a freelance writer and translator, a Fellow of the Queen\u2019s College, Oxford, and was co-editor of <i>Modern Poetry in Translation<\/i> from 2004 to 2013. He was awarded The Queen\u2019s Gold Medal for Poetry for 2020.\u00a0He has published numerous books of poetry, translations and a novel with Bloodaxe, and several novels and collections of short stories with Comma Press. Selected titles include <i>Something for the Ghosts<\/i> (2002), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award; <i>Collected Poems<\/i> (2004), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and <em>Belongings <\/em>(2020). His Bloodaxe translations include editions of Henri Michaux and Philippe Jaccottet; his <i>Selected Poems<\/i> of H\u00f6lderlin, winner of the European Poetry Translation Prize; and his translation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger\u2019s <i>Lighter Than Air<\/i>, winner of the Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Constantine is a freelance writer and translator, a Fellow of the Queen\u2019s College, Oxford, and was co-editor of Modern Poetry in Translation from 2004 to 2013. He was awarded The Queen\u2019s Gold Medal for Poetry for 2020.\u00a0He has published numerous books of poetry, translations and a novel with Bloodaxe, and several novels and collections [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8084,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8139","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}