{"id":8590,"date":"2025-03-19T20:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8590"},"modified":"2025-06-10T12:44:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:44:47","slug":"elaine-feinstein","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/elaine-feinstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Elaine Feinstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elaine Feinstein was a poet, novelist, and biographer. She received many prizes, including a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, Society of Authors&#8217;, Wingate and Arts Council Awards, and an Honorary D.Litt from the University of Leicester. Her versions of the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, a <em>New York Times<\/em> Book of the Year, have remained in print since 1971. She was given a major grant from the Arts Council to write her novel, <em>The Russian Jerusalem<\/em>\u00a0(Carcanet Press, 2008). Her collection <em>Cities<\/em> came out in 2010, <em>Portraits<\/em> in 2015 and her new and selected poems, <em>The Clinic<\/em>, <em>Memory<\/em>, in 2017. She served on the Council of the Royal Society of Literature, of which she was a Fellow, as a judge for many literary awards, and as a Chair of the Judges for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She received a Civil List Pension in 2010. She died in September 2019. <em>Photo \u00a9 Sara Bowman<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elaine Feinstein was a poet, novelist, and biographer. She received many prizes, including a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, Society of Authors&#8217;, Wingate and Arts Council Awards, and an Honorary D.Litt from the University of Leicester. Her versions of the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, a New York Times Book of the Year, have remained in print [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9059,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8590","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8590","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\/9059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}