Ruth Padel
Author

قصائد

First Cell الانجليزية

الترجمات: de

Revelation الانجليزية

الترجمات: de

Allele الانجليزية

الترجمات: de

Where Clavicle and Wishbone Fuse الانجليزية

الترجمات: de

Nocturne الانجليزية

الترجمات: de

Lodestone الانجليزية

الترجمات: de

The Ampullae of Lorenzini الانجليزية

الترجمات: de

Ruth Padel
Author

About

* 08.05.1946, London, المملكة المتحدة
يعيش في: London, المملكة المتحدة

Ruth Padel, born in London in 1947, studied Classics at Oxford, Paris and Berlin, and has taught at many universities, including Ancient Greek at Oxford, Opera at Princeton, Myth in Buenos Aires, as well teaching horse-riding in Berlin.

In 1985 she left the academies to become a full time writer. Before becoming that, she lived for several years in Greece, worked as a Greek scholar and sung in an Istanbul nightclub. Music and performance were always major aspects to her life, from playing viola to choir-singing and music journalism.

Ruth Padel has written six collections of poetry, several shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot or Whitbread Prize.

She won the National Poetry Competition, discussed contemporary poetry each week in her column in the newspaper 'Independent on Sunday', and published two books about reading modern poetry, most recently The Poem and the Journey.

Other non-fiction includes I'm A Man, about rock music and Greek myth, and Tigers in Red Weather, a nature book and travel memoir about the years she spent searching for tigers in Asian jungles, and The Mara Crossing, a meditation on migration and immigration.

She was Chair of the Poetry Society from 2004 to 2006 and in 2009, for the Poetry Society’s Centenary, she is to be one of the judges of the National Poetry Competition.

Related to her ancestry, Padel is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London, and wrote Darwin, A Life in Poems on her great great grandfather Charles Darwin.