Dead Poets Society

[MariNisia 4,198]

José Manuel Caballero Bonald, the Spanish poet and member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, has died at the age of 94 at his home in Madrid.

 

 

https://then24.com/2021/05/09/poet-jose-manuel-caballero-bonald-dies-at-94/

 

Caballero Bonald received the National Prize for Spanish Letters in 2005, the National Poetry Prize in 2006, the Cervantes Prize in 2012 and the Francisco Umbral Prize for his book of poetry "Unlearning" in 2016.

[MariNisia 4,198]

THREE POEMS BY JOSÉ MANUEL CABALLERO BONALD:

 

 

WASTE OF TIME:

There's a great white bird,

nesting in the word time, a consecutive

loss of past historic,

and some surplus of fleetingness.

Other words interweave

in the word time, of the same stock:

The slow, perpetual sea, and its fathomless

wearing away, fate ever wandering,

and the astronomic light gap.

The one strategy best poised to defeat time

is to be able to waste it, and go unpunished.

 

 

I DO NOT KNOW FROM WHENCE YOU COME:

Now I remember the speakable river

that flowed below your name, the house in whose kingdom

the bitter day walked, meandering around the clear maternal walls.

I remember it all together, although, I don't know,

something escapes me, like a remnant

of light, like a sense of absence,

something that I forget and yet understand

that it is most decisive. And suddenly

I no longer know anything of yours.

 

 

THE DISQUIET OF THE PERFORMED DUTY:

Blessed he who, one morning,

suddenly

turns aside from the road he used to walk each day,

for years, until the irrevocable

district of duty.

So what made him digress:

The ineffective sameness of inertia,

taedium vitae repeatedly ongoing like a merciless

devastation, the dampened

distance between morons and their prisons?

Did he unwittingly choose the least

predictable, that's to say, the fairest way?

Blessed he who one day decided to retrace his life

until reaching one very unendorseable peace.

[arghton 6,742]

https://www.lavanguardia.com/local/valencia/20210520/7470742/muere-poeta-francisco-brines-89-anos-edad-dias-hospitalizado.html
 

Fransisco Brines dead at 89, poet and last year's Miguel de Cervantes prize winner.

He's the third winner of that prize to die this year after Joan Margarit. the 2019 winner (1938-2021) and Jose Manuel Caballero Bonald (1926-2021) the 2012 winner. The prize is awarded yearly.

 

Alive people who have won the prize as of 21.5.2021:

 

1994 Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936) Later won the Nobel prize for literature

1999 Jorge Edwards (1931-2023)

2006 Antonio Gamoneda (b. 1931)

2013 Elena Poniatowska (b. 1932)

2016 Eduardo Mendoza (b. 1943)

2017 Sergio Ramirez (b. 1942)

2018 Ida Vitale (b. 1923)

 

All the alive recipients are over 78. It's called the most prestigious and remunerative award given for Spanish-language literature by Encyclopaedia Britannica and is often given for the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer.

[MariNisia 4,198]

6 hours ago, arghton said:

Miguel de Cervantes prize winner.

It's called the most remunerative award given for Spanish-language.

 

That's a lie.

The most remunerative award given for Spanish-language is The Planet Award.

600.000 € (about 664.396 US dollars).

It's the second most valuable literary award in the world after the Nobel Prize for Literature.

In terms of a single book prize, The Planet Award is the most valuable in the world.

In Spain... the second is The Alfaguara Prize (about 175.000 US dollars).

The Cervantes Prize is the most important because The King of Spain awards the prize in a solemn ceremony.

But the winner receives 125.000 € (about 138.180 US dollars).

When you say something, know the facts first.

[arghton 6,742]

https://bdnews24.com/people/2021/05/25a/award-winning-poet-and-bangla-academy-director-general-habibullah-sirajee-dies

Bangladeshi poet and Bangla Academy director general Habibullah Siraji has died aged 72.

 

His predecessor and the President of Bangla Academy, Shamsuzzaman Khan died last month aged 79.

[arghton 6,742]

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11971919

Ilpo Tiihonen, Finnish poet dead at 70.

Won multiple prizes for works made from the 1970s to the 2000s.

One of the most known poets in the country but not as known as Kirsi Kunnas, probably the most known alive Finnish poet after the deaths of Juice Leskinen in 2006, Arto Paasilinna in 2018, Aila Meriluoto and Leevi Lehto in 2019.

[chilean way 1,900]

Stephen Dunn, American poet and a Pulitzer Winner in 2001 has died, also a birthday death  https://newsjcd.com/news/entertainment/stephen-dunn-poet-who-celebrated-the-ordinary-dies-at-82/?amp

[YoungWillz 21,050]

Report on the Twitterpunchcard that German born British jazz poet Michael Horovitz has writ his last. 

 

[Ulitzer95 12,636]

4 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Report on the Twitterpunchcard that German born British jazz poet Michael Horovitz has writ his last. 

 

Telegraph obit for Michael Horovitz.

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

Estonian poet, critic, translator, and philosopher Jaan Kaplinski, known for The Wandering Border, Evening Brings Everything Back, and other poetic works, died at 80 years:

https://kultuur.err.ee/1608301980/suri-jaan-kaplinski

He also published an autobiographical novel entitled The Same River.

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

Poet and social activist Jack Hirschman, who was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, died at 87 years: 

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Jack-Hirschman-Marxist-poet-and-North-Beach-16404434.php

His numerous poetry collections include Lyripol, A Correspondence of Americans, and The Bottom Line. While on the faculty of the University of California-Los Angeles, Hirschman taught Doors frontman Jim Morrison and when he was nineteen years old, he sent a story to Ernest Hemngway, who responded with positive feedback.

[Sideik 236]

 Ready for a new random list with some curse in it?

 

Here are the Golden Wreath laureates at the Struga poetry evenings:

 

1966 Robert Rozhdestvensky (USSR, 1932 -1994)

1967 Bulat Okudzhava (USSR, 1924 - 1997)

1968 László Nagy (Hungary, 1925 - 1978)

1969 Mak Dizdar (Yugoslavia, 1917 - 1971)

1970 Miodrag Pavlović (Yugoslavia, 1928 - 2014)

1971 W. H. Auden (United States, 1907 - 1973)

1972 Pablo Neruda (Chile, 1904 - 1973)

1973 Eugenio Montale (Italy, 1896, 1981)

1974 Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca (Turkey, 1914 - 2008)

1975 Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal, 1906 - 2001)

1976 Eugène Guillevic (France, 1907 - 1997)

1977 Artur Lundkvist (Sweden, 1906 - 1991)

1978 Rafael Alberti (Spain, 1902 - 1999)

1979 Miroslav Krleža (Yugoslavia, 1893 - 1981)

1980 Hans Magnus Enzensberger (West Germany, 1929) 

1981 Blaže Koneski (Yugoslavia, 1921 - 1993)

1982 Nichita Stănescu (Romania, 1933 - 1983)

1983 Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan Agyey (India, 1911 - 1987)

1984 Andrey Voznesensky (USSR, 1933 - 2010)

1985 Yiannis Ritsos (Greece, 1909 - 1990)

1986 Allen Ginsberg (United States, 1926 - 1997)

1987 Tadeusz Różewicz (Poland, 1921 - 2014)

1988 Desanka Maksimović (Yugoslavia, 1898 - 1993)

1989 Thomas W. Shapcott (Australia, 1935)

1990 Justo Jorge Padrón (Spain, 1943 - 2021)

1991 Joseph Brodsky (United States, 1940 - 1996)

1992 Ferenc Juhász (Hungary, 1928 - 2015)

1993 Gennadiy Aygi (Chuvash Republic, Russian Federation, 1934 - 2006)

1994 Ted Hughes (United Kingdom, 1930 - 1998)

1995 Yehuda Amichai (Israel, 1924 - 2000)

1996 Makoto Ooka (Japan, 1931 - 2007)

1997 Adunis (Syria, 1930)

1998 Liu Banjiu (China, 1922 - 2009)

1999 Yves Bonnefoy (France, 1923 - 2016)

2000 Edoardo Sanguineti (Italy, 1930 - 2010)

2001 Seamus Heaney (Ireland, 1939 - 2013)

2002 Slavko Mihalić (Croatia, 1928 - 2007)

2003 Tomas Tranströmer (Sweden, 1931 - 2015)

2004 Vasco Graça Moura (Portugal, 1942 - 2014)

2005 William S. Merwin (United States, 1927 - 2019)

2006 Nancy Morejón (Cuba, 1944)

2007 Mahmoud Darwish (Palestine, 1941 - 2008)

2008 Fatos Arapi (Albania, 1930 - 2018)

2009 Tomaž Šalamun (Slovenia, 1941 - 2014)

2010 Lyubomir Levchev (Bulgaria, 1935 - 2019)

2011 Mateja Matevski (Macedonia, 1929 - 2018)

2012 Mongane Wally Serote (South Africa, 1944)

2013 José Emilio Pacheco (Mexico, 1939 - 2014)

2014 Ko Un (South Korea, 1933)

2015 Bei Dao (China, 1949) 

2016 Margaret Atwood (Canada, 1939)

2017 Charles Simic (United States, 1938)

2018 Adam Zagajewski (Poland, 1945 - 2021)

2019 Ana Blandiana (Romania, 1942)

2020 Amir Or (Israel, 1956)

2021 Carol Ann Duffy (United Kingdom, 1955)

 

 

Ok, the mean age of the winners is high, but category's life expectancy is usually higher. Between those born in 1940s only 4 out of 10 are still alive and only 5 out of the 17 born in 1930s.

I can't find particular news on the health of the survivors but at least Enzensberger and Adunis are good candidates due to advanced age.

[YoungWillz 21,050]

Irish language poet Maire Mhac an tSaoi reportedly dead aged 99 on the board of Twits: 

Picked for the Poker Tourney at least, and I believe the DDP (under T) for The Sick Bed of yadayadayada. 

[YoungWillz 21,050]

Maire Mhac an tSaoi confirmation: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/celebrated-poet-máire-mhac-an-tsaoi-dies-aged-99-1.4702845

 

Whether she QOs? Well, who knows?

[DCI Frank Burnside 3,887]

Renowned Irish author and poet Brendan Kennelly  

 

 

 

 

[arghton 6,742]

https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000008354769.html

Finnish poet Sirkka Turkka dead at 82. Cause of death not mentioned but she had lived in a care home for years.

Won the Finlandia Prize in 1987 and the Eino Leino Prize for poets and writers in 2000. 

[YoungWillz 21,050]

Death Notice for the Scots born poet (and author, but mostly poetry) Wes Magee, aged 82: http://announcements.telegraph.co.uk/deaths/253066/wes-magee

 

Mostly for children, his work has appeared on Poetry Pie for CBeebies.

[arghton 6,742]

On 09/06/2021 at 16:19, arghton said:

https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11971919

Ilpo Tiihonen, Finnish poet dead at 70.

Won multiple prizes for works made from the 1970s to the 2000s.

One of the most known poets in the country but not as known as Kirsi Kunnas, probably the most known alive Finnish poet after the deaths of Juice Leskinen in 2006, Arto Paasilinna in 2018, Aila Meriluoto and Leevi Lehto in 2019.

https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000008390613.html

Kirsi Kunnas dead at the age of 96.

[Ulitzer95 12,636]

Etel Adnan (wiki), Lebanese-American poet, has died aged 96.

 

A pick on the 20/20 pool.

[YoungWillz 21,050]

5 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said:

Etel Adnan (wiki), Lebanese-American poet, has died aged 96.

 

A pick on the 20/20 pool.

Beaten to it. 

 

Have a translated obit: https://www-lorientlejour-com.translate.goog/article/1281494/lartiste-etel-adnan-est-decedee-a-paris.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui

 

@gcreptile she's a DDP pick anaw.

[YoungWillz 21,050]

On 14/11/2021 at 16:34, Ulitzer95 said:

Etel Adnan (wiki), Lebanese-American poet, has died aged 96.

 

A pick on the 20/20 pool.

Apparently the Guggenheim International Gala was held last night which in part was honouring Etel Adnan, and while the Mail has been fascinated by the outfits worn by some pretty ladies attending, no mention of Adnan's death, even in passing. Last chance for DDP points gone, I'd say.

[gcreptile 10,972]

12 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

Apparently the Guggenheim International Gala was held last night which in part was honouring Etel Adnan, and while the Mail has been fascinated by the outfits worn by some pretty ladies attending, no mention of Adnan's death, even in passing. Last chance for DDP points gone, I'd say.

QO via Last Word:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011lpt

 

Here's hoping for a repeat next week for Belinda Sykes.

[YoungWillz 21,050]

21 minutes ago, gcreptile said:

QO via Last Word:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011lpt

 

Here's hoping for a repeat next week for Belinda Sykes.

This rule was changed after January 1st, yeah?

[gcreptile 10,972]

8 hours ago, YoungWillz said:

This rule was changed after January 1st, yeah?

Maybe I am dense, but...was it?

 

Last Word is part of the QOs since 2021, see the first post in the DDP 2021 thread. 

msc also pointed everyone to the Last Word web page which is a QO: 

 

[msc 18,476]

From my sickbed, @YoungWillz, it was changed and announced last year for this years competition. Has to be written down on the last word page. One new qo players had asked for, along with the return of the independent.