James Sutherland-Smith Author & Translator

James Sutherland-Smith was born in 1948 and lives in Slovakia. He has published six previous collections of his own poetry, the most recent being Mouth, from Shearsman Books in 2014. He has translated a number of Slovak poets and Serbian poets including Mila Haugová, Ivana Milankov and Miodrag Pavlović. For his translations he received the Slovak Hviezdoslav Prize in 2003 and the Serbian Zlatko Krasni Prize in 2014. Mouth received the Rector’s Prize at Prešov University in 2015. A selection of his translations of Mária Ferenčuhová’s poetry, Tidal Events, are also published by Shearsman Books in 2018.