George Szirtes.
GEORGE SZIRTES: BIOGRAPHY OF HIS MOTHER
THE PHOTOGRAPHER AT SIXTEEN (2019)
Winner of the 2019 James Tait Black Prize for Biography.
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George Szirtes’ mother Magda died in an ambulance after she had tried, at the age of fifty one, to take her own life. That life had been marked by tragedy and upheaval. She had fled to England from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and her two young boys - George Szirtes and his brother. An ambitious photographer, she lived through a turbulent and stresssful period of European history, with families torn apart. The Sunday Times described the book as ‘beautifully written and utterly compelling’.
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Born in Budapest in 1948, George Szirtes came to England as a refugee aged eight. He was brought up in London, and went to art school in London and Leeds. He is a distinguished poet, having won the Geoffre Faber Memorial Prize for poetry in 1980. He has also won many awards for his translations of fiction, poetry and plays from Hungarian to English. He retired from teaching at the University of East Anglia in 2013.
