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Born in London, William Radice has pursued a double career as a poet and as a scholar and translator of Bengali, and has written or edited more than thirty books. His volumes of verse have been published in the UK and South Asia, and include Strivings (1980), Louring Skies (1985) The Retreat (1994). He has many translations to his name, most notably of Tagore’s Selected Poems and Selected Short Stories, both of which have been reprinted many times. He also wrote Teach Yourself Bengali (1994), and has translated works from the German, including Martin Kämpchen’s The Honey-Seller and Other Stories (1995) and Traces of My Father, a translation of Sigfrid Gauch’s autobiographical novel Vaterspuren (2002).
William has written, adapted and translated several plays and librettos, including a 1995 translation of Puccini’s Turandot for English National Opera. He has given lectures and poetry readings around the world, and has received literary prizes in both India and Bangladesh. From 1998 to 2002 he wrote a fortnightly ‘Letter from England’ for the Statesman in India, and has also contributed to BBC Radio 2’s early morning Pause for Thought.
For many years William was a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department at SOAS, University of London, but now works part time to concentrate on his writing. His recent publications include Rabindranath Tagore: the Collected Brief Poems (2001), Myths and Legends of India for the Folio Society (2001), Gifts: Poems 1992-1999 (2002), and Green, Red, Gold: a Novel in 101 Sonnets (2005). He is married with two daughters, and is now based mainly in Northumberland.
For more information see www.williamradice.com .
Recent books:
Green, Red, Gold: a Novel in 101 Sonnets (Flambard: 2005)
Teach Yourself Bengali (Teach Yourself: 2005)
Poetry and Community: Lectures and Essays 1991-2001 (Chronicle: 2004)
Gifts: Poems 1992-1999 (Grevatt: 2002)
Myths and Legends of India (Folio Society: 2001)
Rabindranath Tagore: Particles, Jottings, Sparks: The Collected Brief Poems (HarperCollins India: 2001)
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