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| Will Stone (born 12 October 1966) is an award-winning British poet, essayist, and literary translator. He is best known for his translations of the works of ] and ] published under Pushkin Press’s Classics series. | |||
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| ⚫ | == Education == | ||
| ⚫ | Will Stone received an MA in Literary Translation from ] in 1999 and B.Ed in French from the (Bristol) in 1993. | ||
| == Fellowships and Residencies == | |||
| Stone is regularly supported by ] in London and has held a number of fellowships and residencies in the UK and on the continent, including fellowships at the (Scotland), and residencies at the Collège Européen des Traducteurs Littéraires de Seneffe (Belgium), the (Arles, France), the (Switzerland), the Maison d’Ecrivains Jules Roy (Vézelay, France), the international writers house in Antwerp, Belgium, the apartment in Venice, and the on Achill Island, Ireland. | |||
| Stone has also been awarded grants for research and travel for writing projects from the ] the K. Blundell Trust, and ], and, for works in translation, from the ] in Paris and the in Brussels. | |||
| == Will Stone (poet) == | |||
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| ⚫ | == Poetry == | ||
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| ⚫ | Stone’s first poetry collection '''' (Salt, 2007), won the International Glen Dimplex Award for Poetry in 2008. Subsequent collections include '''' (Salt, 2011; 2nd ed. Shearsman, 2015), '''' (Shearsman, 2016) and '''' (Shearsman, 2020), and '''' (Shearsman, 2024. His poems have been variously translated into Dutch, French, German, Romanian and Spanish and published in a number of European journals, including ''],'' '']'' ] '']'']'','' the ''],'' ''], Agenda, ], ]'', '']'', and ''].'' | ||
| ⚫ | == Essays == | ||
| Stone has read his poetry and translations and given talks on Stefan Zweig and other writers and poets he has translated at a number of British and international literary festivals. For example, he presented Stefan Zweig ‘Messages from a Lost World’ (Pushkin) at The Cambridge Literary Festival in 2016 and also contributed readings to the ‘Stefan Zweig in Europe’ international study day at The British Library in London on 20 March 20 2017. He has also launched his books of translations at the Austrian Cultural Forum and the French and Flemish embassies in London. | |||
| ⚫ | Stone has contributed reviews, essays, and translations to the ''Times Literary Supplement,'' ''The London Magazine,''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Magazine |first=The London |date=2021-08-26 |title=Essay {{!}} Closing the Door to the Continent by Will Stone |url=https://thelondonmagazine.org/essay-closing-the-door-to-the-continent-by-will-stone/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=The London Magazine |language=en-GB}}</ref> the ''Guardian,'' the ''Spectator,'' the ''White Review,'' ''Modern Poetry in Translation, Agenda, Irish Pages, The New European'', ''The Fortnightly Review,'' and ''Poetry Review.'' (Stone's TLS archives can be found ) He has also contributed essays on poetry translation to the and has translated articles from French and German for private art galleries such as Karsten Greve in Cologne/Paris and the historic art journal '']'' in Paris. His essay on the acoustic guitarist ], 'Nick Drake: Precipice of Loneliness' is included in '''' edited by Gabrielle Drake (John Murray Press, 2014). | ||
| ⚫ | Stone has also contributed art criticism and reviews in '']'', the ''RA Magazine,'' and the ''TLS''. His essay on the Belgian painter ] was included in the RA catalogue<ref>{{Cite web |title=Leon Spilliaert Hardback Catalogue |url=https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/leon-spilliaert-hb |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=shop.royalacademy.org.uk |language=en}}</ref> for the exhibition on the artist held in London through 2020 and was then selected to be translated into French for the follow up exhibition on the artist at Musée d’Orsay, Paris in 2021. Stone's essay 'The Dream of Others' on Spilliraert's exhibition of the same name appears in the ''TLS.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=The illustrations of the 'brilliant and elusive' Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/the-dream-of-others/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=TLS |language=en-GB}}</ref> | ||
| == Translations == | == Translations == | ||
| Stone's published translations from French and German include works by Maurice Betz, ], ], Rainer Maria Rilke, ]<nowiki/>h, ], ], ], ], ], and Stefan Zweig. | |||
| Stone's published translations from French and German include works by Stefan Zweig,<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Man Out of Time – 3:AM Magazine |url=https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-man-out-of-time-an-interview-with-will-stone-on-stefan-zweig/ |access-date=2024-04-25 |language=en-GB}}</ref> Joseph Roth, Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gérard de Nerval, Georg Simmel, Maurice Betz, Emile Verhaeren and Georges Rodenbach. His latest published translations are '''' by Guy de Pourtalès (Pushkin Press, 2022) and '''' by Georges Rodenbach (Wakefield Press, 2022). (See also Rilke and Trakl sections below.) | |||
| ⚫ | In April 2024 '''' a collection of Rilke’s letters from French appeared with Seagull Books and in July 2025 Pushkin will publish a first English edition of ''Conversations with Rilke (Rilke Vivant'') by Maurice Betz, both translated by Stone. Previously Stone has translated Rilke's (Pushkin Press, 2020) and ''Notes on the Melody of Things'' (Hesperus Press, 2012). He also translated a new edition of Maurice Betz's '''' (Pushkin Press, 2019). | ||
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| ⚫ | In April 2024 '''' a collection of Rilke’s letters from French |
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| ⚫ | Stone is the translator of the Collected Poems of Georg Trakl, '''' (Pushkin Press, 2019) and previously a Selected Poems, '''' (Arc Publications, 2005). He translated '''' by Guy de Pourtalès (Pushkin Press, 2022) and '''' by Georges Rodenbach (Wakefield Press, 2022). | ||
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| Stone has translated numerous works by Stefan Zweig, including '''' (Pushkin Press, 2020); '''' (Hesperus Press, 2010; 2nd ed. Pushkin Press, 2019); '''' (Pushkin Press, 2016); '''' (Pushkin Press, 2016); and '''' (Hesperus Press, 2013; 2nd ed. Pushkin Press, 2020). An interview with Stone on Zweig's ''Journeys'', 'A Man Out of Time' appeared in ''3:AM Magazine.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Man Out of Time – 3:AM Magazine |url=https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/a-man-out-of-time-an-interview-with-will-stone-on-stefan-zweig/ |access-date=2024-04-26 |language=en-GB}}</ref> | |||
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| == Art Criticism == | |||
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| == Awards and Grants == | |||
| Stone has received a number of bursaries and grants in the UK and in the EU, and is regularly supported by in London. He has variously been awarded grants for research and travel for writing projects from the K Blundell Trust and Arts Council England. Further grants for works in translation have come from Le Centre National du Livre in Paris and the Service de la Promotion des Lettres in Brussels. He has held a number of fellowships and residencies in the UK and on the continent. The most recent was a three-month residence during autumn 2022 for literary translators offered by the Canton Valais in Raron, Switzerland. He took this opportunity to translate a number of letters written in French from the poet Rilke to Antoinette de Bonsetten, 1924-26, and to carry out research towards the introduction to the book. Over the past two decades Stone has benefited from three writer fellowships at the near Edinburgh in 2004, 2010 and 2012. Between 2001 and 2016 he completed seven literary translation summer residencies at the Collège Européen des Traducteurs Littéraires de Seneffe in Belgium and a further five residencies over roughly the same period at the Collège International des Traducteurs Littéraires in Arles, France. He spent a month at the Translators’ House ‘Looren’ near Zurich Switzerland in 2013/14 and was also awarded two writer residencies at the Maison d’Ecrivains Jules Roy, in Vézelay, France in 2012/2013 and the international writers house in Antwerp, Belgium in 2013/2015. In May 2024 he will take up a writer’s residence at the on Achill Island, Ireland. Stone is also the recipient of a writer’s residence in October 2024 at the apartment in Venice. | |||
| ⚫ | == Education == | ||
| ⚫ | Will Stone received an MA in Literary Translation from University of East Anglia in 1999 and B.Ed in French from the University of the West of England (Bristol) in 1993. |
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| == Bibliography == | == Bibliography == | ||
| Poetry | |||
| '''' (Salt Publishing, 2011; 2nd ed. Shearsman Books, 2015) | '''' (Salt Publishing, 2011; 2nd ed. Shearsman Books, 2015) | ||
| '''' (Salt Publishing, 2007; 2nd ed. Shearsman Books, 2015) | '''' (Salt Publishing, 2007; 2nd ed. Shearsman Books, 2015) | ||
| ⚫ | '''' (Shearsman Books, 2024) | ||
| '''' (Shearsman Books, 2016) | '''' (Shearsman Books, 2016) | ||
| (Shearsman Books, 2020) | |||
| Translation | |||
| '''Poetry Translations''' | |||
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Maurice Betz, '''' (Pushkin Press, 2019) | ||
| ⚫ | * ''Conversations with Rilke'' by Maurice Betz (forthcoming from Pushkin Press, 2025) | ||
| ⚫ | '''' |
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| ⚫ | Gérard de Nerval, '''' (Menard Press, 1999; 2nd ed. Shearsman Books, 2017) | ||
| ⚫ | '''' |
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| Guy de Pourtalès, '''' (Pushkin Press, 2022) | |||
| ⚫ | '''' |
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| ⚫ | Rainer Maria Rilke, ''Notes on the Melody of Things'' (Hesperus Press, 2012) | ||
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| ⚫ | * '''' by Rainer Maria Rilke (Seagull Books, 2024) | ||
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| ⚫ | * '''' (Pushkin Press, 2020) | ||
| ⚫ | ''Tropfblut'' |
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| George Rodenbach, '''' (Wakefield Press, 2022) | |||
| '''Prose Translations''' | |||
| ⚫ | * '''' (Arc Publications, 2017) | ||
| ⚫ | ''The Art of the City: Rome, Florence, Venice |
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| ⚫ | Joseph Roth, '''' (Hesperus Press, 2013; 2nd ed. Pushkin Press, 2019) | ||
| ''Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach (Wakefield Press, 2022)'' | |||
| ⚫ | Georg Simmel, '''' (Pushkin Press, 2018) | ||
| ⚫ | ''Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe'' |
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| ⚫ | August Stramm, ''Tropfblut'' co-translated with Anthony Vivis (Taw Press, 2007) | ||
| ⚫ | ''Friedrich Hölderlin’s Life Poetry and Madness'' |
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| Georg Trakl | |||
| ⚫ | ''Journeys'' |
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| ⚫ | * (Pushkin Press, 2019) | ||
| ⚫ | ''Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink'' |
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| ⚫ | * (Arc Publications, 2005) | ||
| Emile Verhaeren, '''' (Arc Publications, 2013) | |||
| ''Montaigne'' by Stefan Zweig (Pushkin Press, 2016) | |||
| ⚫ | Wilhelm Waiblinger, '''' (Hesperus Press, 2018) | ||
| ⚫ | ''On the End of the World'' |
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| Stefan Zweig | |||
| ''Nietzsche in Italy'' by Guy de Pourtalès (Pushkin Press, 2022) | |||
| ⚫ | ''Nietzsche'' |
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| ⚫ | ''Notes on the Melody of Things'' |
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| ''Rilke in Paris'' by Maurice Betz (Pushkin Press, 2019) | |||
| '''Forthcoming Titles''' | |||
| ⚫ | ''Conversations with Rilke'' by Maurice Betz (Pushkin Press, 2025) | ||
| ⚫ | '''' (Shearsman Books, 2024) | ||
| ⚫ | * '''' (Pushkin Press, 2020) | ||
| ⚫ | '''' by Rainer Maria Rilke (Seagull Books, 2024) | ||
| ⚫ | * '''' (Hesperus Press, 2010; 2nd ed. Pushkin Press, 2019) | ||
| ⚫ | * '''' (Pushkin Press, 2016) | ||
| * '''' (Pushkin Press, 2016) | |||
| ⚫ | * '''' (Hesperus Press, 2013; 2nd ed. Pushkin Press, 2020) | ||
| == References == | == References == | ||
Latest revision as of 15:01, 21 January 2025
Will Stone (born 12 October 1966) is an award-winning British poet, essayist, and literary translator. He is best known for his translations of the works of Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke published under Pushkin Press’s Classics series.
Education
Will Stone received an MA in Literary Translation from University of East Anglia in 1999 and B.Ed in French from the University of the West of England (Bristol) in 1993.
Fellowships and Residencies
Stone is regularly supported by The Royal Literary Fund in London and has held a number of fellowships and residencies in the UK and on the continent, including fellowships at the Hawthornden Castle Writer’s Retreat (Scotland), and residencies at the Collège Européen des Traducteurs Littéraires de Seneffe (Belgium), the Collège International des Traducteurs Littéraires (Arles, France), the Translators’ House ‘Looren’ (Switzerland), the Maison d’Ecrivains Jules Roy (Vézelay, France), the international writers house in Antwerp, Belgium, the Emily Harvey Foundation apartment in Venice, and the Heinrich Böll Cottage on Achill Island, Ireland.
Stone has also been awarded grants for research and travel for writing projects from the Society of Authors, the K. Blundell Trust, and Arts Council England, and, for works in translation, from the Centre National du Livre in Paris and the Service de la Promotion des Lettres in Brussels.
Poetry
Stone’s first poetry collection Glaciation (Salt, 2007), won the International Glen Dimplex Award for Poetry in 2008. Subsequent collections include Drawing in Ash (Salt, 2011; 2nd ed. Shearsman, 2015), The Sleepwalkers (Shearsman, 2016) and The Slowing Ride (Shearsman, 2020), and Immortal Wreckage (Shearsman, 2024. His poems have been variously translated into Dutch, French, German, Romanian and Spanish and published in a number of European journals, including Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, The Guardian, TheSpectator, the The White Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Agenda, Irish Pages, The New European, The Fortnightly Review, and The Poetry Review.
Essays
Stone has contributed reviews, essays, and translations to the Times Literary Supplement, The London Magazine, the Guardian, the Spectator, the White Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Agenda, Irish Pages, The New European, The Fortnightly Review, and Poetry Review. (Stone's TLS archives can be found here.) He has also contributed essays on poetry translation to the Goethe Institut London and has translated articles from French and German for private art galleries such as Karsten Greve in Cologne/Paris and the historic art journal Cahiers d’Art in Paris. His essay on the acoustic guitarist Nick Drake, 'Nick Drake: Precipice of Loneliness' is included in Nick Drake: Remembered for a While edited by Gabrielle Drake (John Murray Press, 2014).
Stone has also contributed art criticism and reviews in Apollo Magazine, the RA Magazine, and the TLS. His essay on the Belgian painter Léon Spilliaert was included in the RA catalogue for the exhibition on the artist held in London through 2020 and was then selected to be translated into French for the follow up exhibition on the artist at Musée d’Orsay, Paris in 2021. Stone's essay 'The Dream of Others' on Spilliraert's exhibition of the same name appears in the TLS.
Translations
Stone's published translations from French and German include works by Maurice Betz, Guy de Pourtalès, Gérard de Nerval, Rainer Maria Rilke, Georges Rodenbach, Joseph Roth, Georg Simmel, Georg Trakl, Emile Verhaeren, Wilhelm Waiblinger, and Stefan Zweig.
In April 2024 Letters around a Garden, a collection of Rilke’s letters from French appeared with Seagull Books and in July 2025 Pushkin will publish a first English edition of Conversations with Rilke (Rilke Vivant) by Maurice Betz, both translated by Stone. Previously Stone has translated Rilke's Poems to Night (Pushkin Press, 2020) and Notes on the Melody of Things (Hesperus Press, 2012). He also translated a new edition of Maurice Betz's Rilke in Paris (Pushkin Press, 2019).
Stone is the translator of the Collected Poems of Georg Trakl, Surrender to Night (Pushkin Press, 2019) and previously a Selected Poems, To the Silenced (Arc Publications, 2005). He translated Nietzsche in Italy by Guy de Pourtalès (Pushkin Press, 2022) and Bruges-la-Morte by Georges Rodenbach (Wakefield Press, 2022).
Stone has translated numerous works by Stefan Zweig, including Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe (Pushkin Press, 2020); Journeys (Hesperus Press, 2010; 2nd ed. Pushkin Press, 2019); Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink (Pushkin Press, 2016); Montaigne (Pushkin Press, 2016); and Nietzsche (Hesperus Press, 2013; 2nd ed. Pushkin Press, 2020). An interview with Stone on Zweig's Journeys, 'A Man Out of Time' appeared in 3:AM Magazine.
Bibliography
Poetry
Drawing in Ash (Salt Publishing, 2011; 2nd ed. Shearsman Books, 2015)
Glaciation (Salt Publishing, 2007; 2nd ed. Shearsman Books, 2015)
Immortal Wreckage (Shearsman Books, 2024)
The Sleepwalkers (Shearsman Books, 2016)
The Slowing Ride (Shearsman Books, 2020)
Translation
Maurice Betz, Rilke in Paris (Pushkin Press, 2019)
- Conversations with Rilke by Maurice Betz (forthcoming from Pushkin Press, 2025)
Gérard de Nerval, Les Chimères (Menard Press, 1999; 2nd ed. Shearsman Books, 2017)
Guy de Pourtalès, Nietzsche in Italy (Pushkin Press, 2022)
Rainer Maria Rilke, Notes on the Melody of Things (Hesperus Press, 2012)
- Letters Around a Garden by Rainer Maria Rilke (Seagull Books, 2024)
- Poems to Night (Pushkin Press, 2020)
George Rodenbach, Bruges-la-Morte (Wakefield Press, 2022)
- Selected Poems (Arc Publications, 2017)
Joseph Roth, On the End of the World (Hesperus Press, 2013; 2nd ed. Pushkin Press, 2019)
Georg Simmel, The Art of the City: Rome, Florence, Venice (Pushkin Press, 2018)
August Stramm, Tropfblut co-translated with Anthony Vivis (Taw Press, 2007)
Georg Trakl
- Surrender to Night: Collected Poems of Georg Trakl (Pushkin Press, 2019)
- To the Silenced: Selected Poems (Arc Publications, 2005)
Emile Verhaeren, Emile Verhaeren: Poems (Arc Publications, 2013)
Wilhelm Waiblinger, Friedrich Hölderlin’s Life Poetry and Madness (Hesperus Press, 2018)
Stefan Zweig
- Encounters and Destinies: A Farewell to Europe (Pushkin Press, 2020)
- Journeys (Hesperus Press, 2010; 2nd ed. Pushkin Press, 2019)
- Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink (Pushkin Press, 2016)
- Montaigne (Pushkin Press, 2016)
- Nietzsche (Hesperus Press, 2013; 2nd ed. Pushkin Press, 2020)
References
- Magazine, The London (2021-08-26). "Essay | Closing the Door to the Continent by Will Stone". The London Magazine. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
- "Leon Spilliaert Hardback Catalogue". shop.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
- "The illustrations of the 'brilliant and elusive' Belgian artist Léon Spilliaert". TLS. Retrieved 2024-04-25.
- "A Man Out of Time – 3:AM Magazine". Retrieved 2024-04-26.