Michael Hale Bullock (19 April 1918 – 18 July 2008) was a British poet, novelist and translator. He was born in

London London is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in . London metropolitan area, Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Wester ...

and studied at the

Hornsey College of Art Hornsey College of Art, also known as HCA, founded in 1880 as the Hornsey School of Arts, was an art school in Crouch End, part of Hornsey, Middlesex, England. From 1965 it was in the London Borough of Haringey. From 1955 to 1973, when it was me ...

. He went to Canada in 1968 as a Commonwealth Fellow at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

, where he later taught creative writing and translation, finally retiring as emeritus professor in 1983. He translated nearly 200 literary works from French and German into English, and won many awards in the process. These included the Canada Council French Translation Award (1979) for his translation of

Michel Tremblay Michel Tremblay (born 25 June 1942) is a Canadian writer, novelist and playwright. Tremblay was born in Montreal, Quebec, where he grew up in the French-speaking neighbourhood of Plateau Mont-Royal; at the time of his birth, a neighbourhood ...

's short story collection ''Stories for Late Night Drinkers'', and the inaugural

Schlegel-Tieck Prize The Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation is a literary translation award given by the Society of Authors in London. Translations from the German original into English are considered for the prize. The value of the prize is £3,000, while t ...

. He was the principal English translator of Swiss playwright and novelist

Max Frisch Max Rudolf Frisch (; 15 May 1911 – 4 April 1991) was a Swiss playwright and novelist. Frisch's works focused on problems of identity (social science), identity, individuality, Moral responsibility, responsibility, morality, and political commi ...

. He also published numerous works of prose and poetry under his own name. His novella ''Randolph Cranstone and the Glass Thimble'' (1977) was named British New Fiction Society Book of the Month. He was the founder of British poetry magazine ''Expression'' and editor-in-chief of ''Prism International''. He died in London.

Bibliography

Poetry

*''Transmutations'' (1938). Published under the name Michael Hale. *''Sunday Is a Day of Incest: Poems'' (1961) *''World Without Beginning, Amen!'' (1963) *''A Savage Darkness: Poems'' (1969) *''Black Wings, White Dead: Poems'' (1978) *''Lines in the Dark Wood: Poems'' (1981) *''Quadriga for Judy: Poems'' (1982) *''Prisoner of the Rain: Poems in Prose'' (1983) *''Brambled Heart: Poems'' (1985) *''Dark Water: Poems'' (1987) * ''Poems on Green Paper'' (1988) *''Vancouver Moods: Poems, Photographs'' (1989) *''Avatars of the Moon'' (1990) * ''The Secret Garden'' (1990) * ''Labyrinths: Poems from Five Cities'' (1992) * ''The Inflowing River: Poems'' (1993) *''The Sorcerer with Deadly Nightshade Eyes'' followed by ''The Foundling at the Bottom of the Well: Poems in Verse and Prose'' (1993) *''The Sorcerer with Deadly Nightshade Eyes: Poems'' (1995) *''Dark Roses: Variations on a Theme'' (1994) *''Moons and Mirrors: Poems'' (1994) *''Stone and Shadow: Poems'' (1996) *''Sonnet in Black and Other Poems'' (1998) * ''Erupting in Flowers: Poems'' (1999) *''Nocturnes: Poems of Night'' (2000) *''Wings of the Black Swan: Poems of Love and Loss'' (2001) * ''Colours: Poems'' (2003) *''Seasons: Poems of the Turning Year'' (2008)

Novels and short stories

* ''Sixteen Stories as They Happened'' (1969) *''Green Beginning, Black Ending: Fables'' (1971) * ''Randolph Cranstone and the Pursuing River: Parabolic Fictions'' (1975) *''Randolph Cranstone and the Glass Thimble: A Parabolic Fiction'' (1977) *''The Double Ego: An Autocollage'' (1985) *''The Man With Flowers Through His Hands: Fables'' (1985) *''Randolph Cranstone and the Veil of Maya: A Fable'' (1986) *''The Story of Noire'' (1987) *''Randolph Cranstone Takes the Inward Path'' followed by ''Escape to Columbine'' (1988) *''The Burning Chapel'' (1991) *''The Invulnerable Ovoid Aura and Other Stories'' (1992) *''The Walled Garden: A Fantasia'' (1992) *''Voices of the River: A Rhapsody'' (1995)

Plays

*''Not to Hong Kong'' (1972) *''The Island Abode of Bliss'' (1972) *''The Coats'' (1975) *''Sokotra: A Play in Three Acts'' (1997)

Selected translations

Ingeborg Bachmann Ingeborg Bachmann (; 25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author. She is regarded as one of the major voices of German-language literature in the 20th century. In 1963, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature b ...

: ''The Thirtieth Year'' * Marcel Béalu: ''The Water Spider'' * Joseph Breitbach: ''Report on Bruno'' * André Carpentier: ''Bread of the Birds'' *André Carpentier: ''The Conqueror's Night'' * Walter Erben: ''Marc Chagall'' *

: '' The Fire Raisers'' * Max Frisch: '' I'm Not Stiller'' * Max Frisch: ''

Homo Faber alludes to the idea that human beings are able to control their fate and their environment as a result of the use of tools. Original phrase In Latin literature, Appius Claudius Caecus uses this term in his ''Sententiæ'', referring to the ...

'' *Max Frisch: ''

Andorra Andorra, officially the Principality of Andorra, is a Sovereignty, sovereign landlocked country on the Iberian Peninsula, in the eastern Pyrenees in Southwestern Europe, Andorra–France border, bordered by France to the north and Spain to A ...

'' *Max Frisch: '' A Wilderness of Mirrors'' (reprinted as ''Gantenbein'') *Dr. Paul Hermann: ''Conquest By Man'' (German ''Sieben vorbei und acht verweht'') 1955Der Roman "7 vorbei 8 verweht" von Dr. Paul Herrmann (Hoffmann und Campe Verlag Hamburg) wurde vom mächtigen amerikanischen "Book-of-the-Month-Club" für März 1955 als "Buch des Monats" angenommen.
"Damit ist dem deutschen Autor eine Riesenauflage der amerikanischen Übersetzung seines Buches sicher. Mit der Buchklub-Annahme verbunden ist außerdem eine Summe von 50 000 Dollar, die zur Hälfte an den amerikanischen Verleger und zur Hälfte an den Verfasser geht. Dr. Herrmann ist der erste binnendeutsche Autor, der nach dem Kriege vom "Book-of-the-Month-Club" gekürt wurde." *

Fritz Hochwälder Fritz Hochwälder (28 May 1911 – 21 October 1986) also known as Fritz Hochwaelder, was an Austrian playwright. Known for his spare prose and strong moralist themes, Hochwälder won several literary awards, including the Grand Austrian State ...

: The Raspberry Picker * E. T. A. Hoffmann: ''The Tales of Hoffmann'' *Willibald Klinke: ''Kant for Everyman'' *

Siegfried Lenz Siegfried Lenz (; 17 March 19267 October 2014) was a German writer of novels, short stories and essays, as well as dramas for radio and the theatre. In 2000 he received the Goethe Prize on the 250th Anniversary of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's b ...

: ''The Lightship'' *

: ''Stories for Late Night Drinkers'' * Michel Tremblay: ''The City in the Egg'' *

Wilhelm Worringer Wilhelm Robert Worringer (13 January 1881 in Aachen – 29 March 1965 in Munich) was a German art historian known for his theories about Abstraction, abstract art and its relation to avant-garde movements such as German Expressionism. Through his i ...

: ''Abstraction And Empathy''

References

External links

Michael Bullock fonds at UBC Library
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bullock, Michael German–English translators 1918 births 2008 deaths 20th-century English translators British expatriates in Canada