Forest Murray died

On April 29, at the age of 80, the Australian poet Forest Murray died.

It is reported by The Guardian .

Forest Murray was born in 1938 in the village of Nabiac (New South Wales) in a farmer family, studied at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Sydney, worked as a translator at the Australian National University, and translated scientific and technical literature.

In 1969, he released his first poetic collection, “The Weatherboard Cathedral” , since the beginning of the 1970s he devoted himself to literary creativity. Forest Murray also edited the magazine Poetry Australia , led the section of poetry in the journal Quadrant .

The author of more than thirty books of poems, prose and essays, translated into many languages. Laureate of many national and international awards, including Petrarch Awards (1995), T.S. Eliot (1996) and royal gold medal for poetry (1999).

In 2012, the National Foundation of Australia included Marry's forests in the list of one hundred live treasures of the country, in 2016 the American magazine The Atlantic called it one of the greatest English -speaking poets of all time.

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