Arthur Boyars
British writer and publisher
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Arthur Boyars (28 May 1925 – 6 August 2017)[1] was a British poet and musicologist, who was also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher.
Arthur Boyars | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 May 1925 |
| Died | 6 August 2017 (aged 92) |
| Alma mater | Wadham College, Oxford |
| Occupations | Poet, translator and publisher |
| Spouse | Marion Lobbenberg |
His Poems were published in 1944 by Fortune Press. Boyars started the small magazine Mandrake in 1945 with John Wain while at Wadham College, Oxford,[2][3] subtitled "An Oxford Review";[4] it was published until 1957.[5] Boyars was editor of Oxford Poetry in 1948.[2] He is known also as a translator of Russian poetry. He became the second husband of Marion Lobbenberg, who formed a partnership with John Calder in the publishing house Calder & Boyars. Boyars's name is associated with the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.[6] In 2011, Boyars published a limited edition of his own poetry, Dictations: Selected Poems 1940–2009, which was described by the critic Alberto Manguel as "Dantesque".[1]
Works
- (ed. with Barry Hamer), Oxford Poetry 1948, Oxford: Blackwell, 1948
- (trans. with David Burg) Yuli Daniel, Prison Poems, 1971
- (trans. with Simon Franklin) Yevgeny Yevtushenko, The Face Behind the Face, 1979
- Dictations: Selected Poems 1940–2009, Lexington: The Philidor Company, 2011