Elaine Feinstein (born 24 October 1930, Bootle, Lancashire British Council Contemporary Writers - Elaine Feinstein) is a poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator.
Feinstein was educated at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. She has worked as a university lecturer, a subeditor, and a freelance journalist. Since 1980, when she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she has lived as a full-time writer. In 1990, she received a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, and was given an Honorary D.Litt from the University of Leicester. Her versions of the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva — for which she received three translation awards from the Arts Council — were first published in 1971. She has written fourteen novels, many radio plays, television dramas, and five biographies, including A Captive Lion: the Life of Marina Tsvetaeva (1987) and Pushkin (1998). Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet (2001), was shortlisted for the biennial Marsh Biography Prize. Interview with Elaine Feinstein in The Times. Her biography of Anna Akhmatova, Anna of all the Russias was published in 2005. Elaine Feinstein has travelled extensively, not only to read her work at festivals across the world, but to be Writer in Residence for the British Council, first in Singapore, and then in Tromsų, Norway. She was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at Bellagio in 1998. Her poems have been widely anthologised. Her Collected Poems and Translations (2002) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. She has served as a judge for the Gregory Awards, the Independent Foreign Fiction Award, the Costa Poetry Prize and the Rossica Award for Literature translated from Russian, and in 1995 was chairman of the judges for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Carcanet Press - Elaine Feinstein.
1999 (fifth edition): The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva, (with new poems and a new introduction) Oxford University Press/Carcanet Press
2009, BRIDE OF ICE , New Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva ( including ' On The Red Horse', 'Girlfriend' ( lyrics for Sofia Parnok), New Year's Greetings) and a new Introduction
Novels
Listed by year first published (years of later editions also noted):
1970: The Circle London, Hutchinson (Penguin 1973)
1972: The Amberstone Exit, London, Hutchinson, (Penguin 1974); translated into Hebrew (Keter 1984)
1973: The Glass Alembic, as The Crystal Garden London, Hutchinson, (Penguin 1978); New York, Dutton, 1974
1975: Children of the Rose, London, Hutchinson; (Penguin 1976); translated into Hebrew, 1987
1976: The Ecstasy of Dr Miriam Garner, London, Hutchinson
1978: The Shadow Master, London, Hutchinson, 1978; New York, Simon & Schuster, 1979
1982: The Survivors, London, Hutchinson; New York, 1991
1984: The Border, London, Hutchinson; New York, 1985
1988: Mother's Girl, London, Hutchinson; shortlisted for 1990 Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize
1989: All You Need, London, Hutchinson; New York, 1991
1992: Loving Brecht, London, Hutchinson
1994: Dreamers, London, Macmillan
1996: Lady Chatterley's Confession, London, Macmillan
2001: Dark Inheritance, London, Women's Press
2008: The Russian Jerusalem, Manchester, Carcanet Press.
Radio plays
1980: "Echoes"
1981: "A Late Spring"
1983: "A Day Off"
1985: "Marina Tsvetayeva: A Life"
1987: "If I Ever Get On My Feet Again"
1990: "The Man in Her Life"
1993: "Foreign Girls, a trilogy"
1994: "A Winter Meeting"
"Lawrence's Women in Love" (four-part adaptation)
1996: Adaptation of novel, Lady Chatterley's Confession Book at Bedtime
Short stories
1972: Matters of Chance, London, Covent Garden Press
