Biographical note

Daniel Samoilovich was born in Buenos Aires in 1949). He has published eleven books of poems, including 'Las Encantadas' (Tusquets, Barcelona, 2003; translated as 'The Enchanted Isles', Shearsman, 2023), 'El carrito de Eneas' (Buenos Aires, 2003) and 'Molestando a los demonios' (Pre-textos, Madrid-Valencia, 2009). In 2020 Pre-textos also published his 'Fabulas y fabulaciones', written in collaboration with the artist Eduardo Stupia. He is a translator from English, French and Latin, and has translated the Latin poet Horace into Spanish, and, in collaboration with Mirta Rosenberg, Shakespeare's 'Henry IV'. He edited the quarterly newspaper 'Diario de Poesia' throughout its 83 editions from its foundation in Buenos Aires in 1986 to 2012. He has given lectures or seminars on poetry and poetics at the Casa Encendida and the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid, as well as at the universities of Los Andes and Carabobo (Venezuela), Nacional (Colombia), Rosario and Buenos Aires (Argentina), Sao Paulo (Brazil), Santiago (Chile), Puebla (Mexico) and Princeton (USA). Several collections of his work have been published, including 'La nuit avant de monter a bord' (Quebec, 2001), 'Driven by the wind and drenched to the bone' (Shoestring, Nottingham, 2007), and 'Siete colinas de jade' (Conaculta, Mexico, 2015). In 2015, the publishing house Bajo la Luna published his collected poems, 'Rusia es el tema, Obra Reunida 1973-2008'. Terence Dooley's translations of Mariano Peyrou's 'The Year of the Crab' and Eduardo Moga's 'My Father' were Poetry Book Society Recommendations. He has also translated Eduardo Moga's Selected Poems, and his anthology 'Streets where to walk is to embark: Spanish Poets in London' as well as books by Mario Martin Gijon and Mercedes Cebrian. His own poems, 'The Why of It', are published by The Argent Press. Terence Dooley is Penelope Fitzgerald's literary executor and has edited her essays, 'A House of Air', and her letters, 'So I Have Thought of You' for 4th Estate.