The poet and translator Daniel Whiss Brut died

On Sunday, November 17, the British poet and translator Daniel Waress Brot, who headed the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, died for half a century.

Daniel Wayssbrat was born in 1935 in London, graduated from Cambridge University. In 1965, together with the future poet-laureate of Great Britain Ted Hughes founded the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, whose editor remained until 2004.

From 1970 to 1973, the Whissess Blades was the advisory director of the English International Poetry Festival in London (there, in the fall of 1972, he met Joseph Brodsky), was a member of many other committees, including the Translation Committee of the American Pen-Center. He taught at the Kings-College, at the University of Aiova and the University of London.

Waiss Brut translated Nikolai Zabolotsky, Joseph Brodsky, Inna Lisnyanskaya, Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Yunna Moritz and other Russian poets, composed the anthologies “Post -War Russian Poetry” (1974), “Modern Russian Poets” (2005), the latter, together with his wife, literary expert Valentina Polukhina.

Waiss Brut also translated from other languages, the author of the anthologies “Poetry of survival: post -war poets of Central and Eastern Europe” (1992), “Translation: Theory and Practice” (2006, together with Astrandur Eysteinson).

Daniel Waress Brith released eight of his own poetic collections, the last of which, “Letters Teda” (2003), dedicated Ted Hughes to his friend.