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Stephen Spender

December 2019

  • Arthur Koestler in 1947

    Cold Warriors by Duncan White review – when novels were weapons

    This account of the cultural dimension of capitalism v communism offers a reminder that literature can unsettle the powerful

November 2016

  • Federico García Lorca, whose poem “Desire” was translated by Tomás Sergeant, the winner of the 14-and-under category.

    The week in books
    2016 Stephen Spender prize for poetry in translation – the winners

    From poems originally written in 41 different languages, judges selected translations from Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s Gaelic, Maria Teresa Horta’s Portuguese and Federico García Lorca’s Spanish

January 2016

  • thomas mann frankfurt 1949

    Book of the day
    The Bitter Taste of Victory by Lara Feigel review – portrait of the Germans in defeat

    A survey of postwar Germany as seen by writers and artists shows the complex nature of attitudes to the defeated nation

December 2015

  • Plagiarism

    Poet returns Stephen Spender prize after accusations of plagiarism

    Dutch poetry site claims Allen Prowle’s translations of Rutger Kopland are ‘blatant plagiarism’

November 2015

  • Matthew Spender at his home in Bayswater

    Matthew Spender: ‘Sorry, Dad, I’m not like you. I’m straight’

  • tranlsation

    Books blog
    Stephen Spender prize – a judges’s perspective

September 2015

  • Stephen Spender

    A House in St John’s Wood review – Matthew Spender goes in search of his parents

    A child abandoned – this insightful memoir by the poet’s son exposes truths his mother tried to hide

August 2015

  • the spender family

    A House in St John’s Wood by Matthew Spender review – a remarkable and moving family memoir

  • Cincinnati

    Reading American cities
    Reading American cities: books about Cincinnati

June 2015

  • Jonathan Jones

    Jonathan Jones on art
    Lucian Freud's teenage love letters reveal his complex sexuality

    Jonathan Jones
    The media is in a tizzy over news that Freud had a gay relationship. But his paintings reveal that his lifelong passion was for the human body – male or female

January 2015

  • Translation

    The week in books
    2015 Stephen Spender prize for poetry in translation – submit your entry

    Robina Pelham Burn: Submit a previously unpublished translation of a poem from any language, ancient or modern, no later than 22 May

November 2014

  • Quince was an essential ingredient in Galbraith's victory.

    Scottish poet tastes success in Stephen Spender prize for poetry in translation

    Iain Galbraith wins the open category of the annual competition with his rendition of ‘Quince Jelly’ by the Hamburg poet Jan Wagner. By Edith Hall

October 2013

  • Stephen Spender Wife

    Becoming a Londoner: A Diary by David Plante – review

    David Plante's diary of his friendship with Stephen Spender is a powerful portrait of love set in the liberal London of the 60s, writes Lara Feigel

March 2013

  • Spender

    A look back
    From the Observer archive, 25 March 1979: Stephen Spender on the art of name-dropping

    Stephen Spender
  • Arthur Koestler and his wife

    British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith – review

December 2012

  • The Festival of Britain site on London's South Bank.

    A look back
    From the Observer archive, 30 December 1951: Festival of Britain fosters a new spirit of inquiry

    Stephen Spender applauds a postwar country showing an increased appreciation for science and the arts

November 2012

  • An Abby Wright illustration of a women reading a book outside in the snow

    2012 in review
    Books of the year 2012

  • Ernest Hemingway

    I Am Spain by David Boyd Haycock - review

August 2012

  • Spender (on the right) with WH Auden and Cecil Day Lewis (centre) in Venice in 1949

    Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals, 1939-1995, edited by Lara Feigel and John Sutherland, with Natasha Spender – review

    Blake Morrison is charmed by the self-consciousness of the poet and socialite

September 2009

  • Second world war: A homeless German woman

    Post-war Europe in ruins

    Two accounts of Europe in ruins, with people living in squalor and austerity after the war

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