Pearse Hutchinson

Born in Glasgow to Irish parents, Pearse Hutchinson grew up in Dublin where he attended University College. He left Ireland in 1950 and worked as translator in Geneva before moving to Spain for almost a decade. Hutchinson is fluent in more than a dozen European languages and dialects, including Catalan, Italian, Dutch, Milanese and Galico-Portuguese, and his 2003 publication Done into English contains poetry translations from more than sixty poets. Among his original works in English and Irish are Tongue Without Hands (1963), Faoistin Bhacach (1968), Watching the Morning Grow (1973), The Frost Is All Over (1975), Le Cead na Gréine (1989), The Soul that Kissed the Body (1991) and, most recently, At Least for a While (2008). His Collected Poems was published on his 75th birthday in 2002. Hutchinson received the Butler Award for Irish writing in 1969 and is a member of Aosdána. A co-editor and founder of the literary journal Cyphers, he lives in Dublin.