Jane Duran
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Jane Duran, born {{birth year and age |1944}}, is a Spanish-American{{Cite web |title=Jane Duran |url=https://poetryarchive.org/poet/jane-duran/ |access-date=2020-11-21 |website=Poetry Archive |language=en-GB}} poet, born in Cuba whilst her father was working as a diplomat in the country.
Background
Duran was born in Cuba to an American mother and a Spanish father, Gustavo Durán,{{cite web |last1=Duran |first1=Lucy |author-link1=Lucy Durán |title=Jane Duran's 'Spanish Peasant Boy' featured as part of Radio 3's Poetry Season |url=http://www.enitharmon.co.uk/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=45 |website=Enitharmon Press |accessdate=2020-11-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020050728/http://www.enitharmon.co.uk/pages/news/index.asp?NewsID=45 |archivedate=20 October 2014}} who had fought with the Republican army in the Spanish Civil War. He fled Spain after Franco's victory but would never talk about his experiences. The themes of silences, loss and exile haunt much of her work. Duran was brought up in the United States and Chile, moving to England in 1966 after graduating from Cornell University. She now lives in London with her Algerian husband and their son.
She has published four collections{{cite web |last=Duran |first=Jane |title=Jane Duran biography and publications list on Enitharmon website|url=https://www.enitharmon.co.uk/authors/jane-duran/ |website=Enitharmon Press |accessdate=2024-11-01 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613094555/https://www.enitharmon.co.uk/authors/jane-duran/ |archive-date=13 June 2024}} – Breathe Now, Breathe (1995), Silences from the Spanish Civil War (2002), Coastal (2006) and Graceline, all published by Enitharmon Press. Breathe Now, Breathe won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and in 2005 Duran received a Cholmondeley Award.{{cite web |last1=Duran |first1=Jane |title=Jane Duran Cholmondeley Award |url=https://www.macdowell.org/artists/jane-duran |accessdate=2024-11-01 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240720011144/https://www.macdowell.org/artists/jane-duran |archive-date=20 July 2024}}
In collaboration with Gloria García Lorca she translated two poetry collections of Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, Gypsy Ballads (2011) and Sonnets of Dark Love - The Tamarit Divan (2016), both published by Enitharmon Press.{{cite web |last1=Duran |first1=Jane |title=Jane Duran on the Poetry Translation Centre website: The Tamarit Divan |url=
https://www.poetrytranslation.org/poet/jane-duran/ |website=Poetry Translation Centre |accessdate=2024-11-01 }}
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External links
- {{cite news |newspaper=The Guardian |first=Sarah |last=Crown |title=Waves and dynamics |date=25 February 2006 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/feb/25/featuresreviews.guardianreview29}} Guardian review of Coastal.
- [https://poetryarchive.org/poet/jane-duran/ Profile and poems written and audio] at The Poetry Archive
- [https://enitharmon.co.uk/authors/jane-duran/ Profile] at Enitharmon Press website
- [http://www.poetrytranslation.org/translators/Jane_Duran Profile and poems] at Poetry in Translation
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Category:Cornell University alumni
Category:Spanish–English translators
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