Christopher Middleton is Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature at the University of Texas, Austin. He was born in Cornwall in 1926, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for his first major book of poems, Torse 3 (1962), hailed by A. Alvarez as 'a work of genuine distinction'. Writing in the tradition of European modernism, Middleton is an experimental poet. His latest collection of poems is The Word Pavilion (Carcanet, 2001), and he has published three previous books of short prose. He is a prolific translator from German, among other languages, and has received the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize.
