Timothy Adès
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Timothy Adès (born Esher, England, 1941) is a poet and translator, tending to work with rhyme and metre. He was educated as a King's Scholar at Eton College, where he won the Newcastle Scholarship in 1959, at Balliol College, Oxford and at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. He has studied both classics and business. As a translator, he works mainly with French, German and Spanish rhymed poems, translating them into English.
His books are:
- Victor Hugo, How to be a Grandfather
- Jean Cassou, 33 Sonnets of the Resistance
- Jean Cassou, The Madness of Amadis
- Victor Hugo, The Big Story of the Lion
- Alberto Arvelo Torrealba, Florentino and the Devil
- Robert Desnos, Storysongs/Chantefables
He is a past winner of the John Dryden Prize with Victor Hugo's Moscow, Waterloo, St Helena and the TLS Premio Valle-Inclán Prize with Homer in Cuernavaca by Alfonso Reyes, among other awards.
His wife is the art historian Professor Dawn Ades, CBE, FBA. The composer Thomas Adès is one of their three sons.[1]