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David Constantine is an award-winning short story writer, poet and translator. His collections of poetry include Madder, Watching for Dolphins, Caspar Hauser, The Pelt of Wasps, Something for the Ghosts (shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize), Collected Poems and Nine Fathom Deep. He is a translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux and Jaccottet. In 2003 his translation of Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s Lighter than Air won the Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation. He is also author of one novel, Davies, as well as Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton. He has published four collections of short stories in the UK, including Back at the Spike, Under the Dam, The Shieling and the winner of the 2013 Frank O’Connor Award, Tea at the Midland and Other Stories. He lives in Oxford, where until 2012 he edited Modern Poetry in Translation with his wife Helen.
Praise for In Another Country"Constantine's stories ache with
concern for the retreating, vulnerable, sacred natural world."New
York Times Book Review
"Revelatory ... [David Constantine] is always attuned to the
interplay between the tangible and the invisible. His stories
closely attend to the wonders of the habitable worldwhat one
character calls 'the earth’s lovely phenomena,' while they map the
inner kingdom of the mind, echoing the hidden cataracts of the
characters’ desires and regrets."Wall Street Journal
"The diverse characters [of In Another Country] include ex-monks,
shamed canons, prostitutes, squatters, successful businessmen, and
university professors, but a common thread of silent suffering and
dignity ties them all together. The tragic and the beautiful in
each of their experiences is heightened by the author’s impeccable
eloquence and poetic imagery
A brilliant selection."Publishers
Weekly, Starred Review
"[Constantine] has a remarkable ear for both poetic and common
prose
[H]is work is too beholden to the actual or possible to be
classified as fantasy or allegory, but his stories plunge the
reader so deeply into the boundary-less country of the human psyche
that it feels wrong to describe them as examples of psychological
realism ... That’s one of the many messages embedded in the
collection: that life is too messy, too mysterious and permeable,
to fit into singular categories. It’s not a new message, but it’s
rare to see it stated with such style and conviction."Toronto
Star
"[David Constantine’s] world sometimes recalls those of Harold
Pinter and Ian McEwan, in which the banal niceties of comfortable
livingdinners, funerals for colleagues, business tripsseem to
conceal great menace
It’s what goes unspoken in so many of these
stories that seems so powerful
An author who deserves serious
consideration."Kirkus' Reviews
"Enduringly powerful
Constantine’s great skill lies in his
ability to create moments that feel not like authorial intrusions
but rather fleeting recognitions, whether of insurmountable
loneliness or inchoate hope."Henri Lipton, ZYZZYVA
"After reading David Constantine’s story In Another Country’ ... I
can’t figure out why a U.S. press hasn’t caught on to his work
Thankfully, Biblioasis will publish a selection of his stories next
year."Nicole Rudick, The Paris Review
"There are writers for whom place is a key component of authorial
sensibility
Joyce had Dublin; Faulkner and Twain had their
respective portions of Mississippi. David Constantine
refuse[s]
to restrict [his] settings to background scenery, choosing instead
to fully inhabit the place in which [his] stories unfold
Constantine’s artistic vision, like the land he takes as his
setting, is bleak and rugged
In [his] universe, art, love and
death are never very far apart."The Globe and Mail
"... [I]t’s the precision of David Constantine’s prose that gets
you first. His descriptions, his dialogueit’s all so unnervingly
exact, dropping you into scenes that are both immediately
recognizable and profoundly unsettling."Beatrice
"[S]adness and pity ... infuse much of this book, but the stories
never suffer from a sense of sameness. That’s because Constantine
begins and ends stories in places few writers would imagine, and in
between he shifts direction in ways few readers will expect."Star
Tribune
"Set on islands and coasts, furnished with the silver ladders’ of
streams, featuring wishing wells and even a cursing well, the
virtuoso stories of David Constantine’s In Another Country pulse
with the sounds and rhythms of water, rhythms that draw characters
and readers alike into uncommon and exceptionally profound
emotional depths."Laurie Greer, Politics and Prose
"I cried when I finished the title story, and I wandered about the
landscapes and houses Constantine created thereafter. The depth of
setting in the stories allows the reader to reflect on characters’
relationship struggles in their homes or temporary dwellings,
whether that means in a field, a book-filled house, or a cave.
There is plight here, even if it sometimes appears small, because
even the closest relationships we grow around us where we live are
never definitively part of usand each character reacts to this in
a different way."Todd Wellman, Boswell Book Company
A masterful touch
The entire collection comprises richly
rewarding, unforgettable stories gathered from over four books and
two decades of work."Scout Magazine
"[A] work of graceful economy and power, [In Another Country]
displays the very best of Constantine ... The prose is dream-like
and incantatory, in which there lingers something undefined and
unsettling."Sabotage Reviews
Praise for David Constantine
"Rich and allusive and unashamedly moving."The Independent
"Spellbinding."The Irish Times
"An uneasy blend of the exquisite and the everyday ... the
beatific, the ordinary, the rebarbative even, are almost
indistinguishable ... intelligent and well-turned."The Times
Literary Supplement
"[A] work of graceful economy and power, [In Another Country]
displays the very best of Constantine ... The prose is dream-like
and incantatory, in which there lingers something undefined and
unsettling."Frank Lawton, Sabotage Reviews
"Perhaps the finest of contemporary writers in this form."The
Reader
Praise for In Another Country "Constantine's stories ache with
concern for the retreating, vulnerable, sacred natural world."—New
York Times Book Review
"Revelatory ... [David Constantine] is always attuned to the
interplay between the tangible and the invisible. His stories
closely attend to the wonders of the habitable world—what one
character calls 'the earth’s lovely phenomena,' while they map the
inner kingdom of the mind, echoing the hidden cataracts of the
characters’ desires and regrets."—Wall Street Journal
"The diverse characters [of In Another Country] include ex-monks,
shamed canons, prostitutes, squatters, successful businessmen, and
university professors, but a common thread of silent suffering and
dignity ties them all together. The tragic and the beautiful in
each of their experiences is heightened by the author’s impeccable
eloquence and poetic imagery … A brilliant selection."—Publishers
Weekly, Starred Review
"[Constantine] has a remarkable ear for both poetic and common
prose … [H]is work is too beholden to the actual or possible to be
classified as fantasy or allegory, but his stories plunge the
reader so deeply into the boundary-less country of the human psyche
that it feels wrong to describe them as examples of psychological
realism ... That’s one of the many messages embedded in the
collection: that life is too messy, too mysterious and permeable,
to fit into singular categories. It’s not a new message, but it’s
rare to see it stated with such style and conviction."—Toronto
Star
"[David Constantine’s] world sometimes recalls those of Harold
Pinter and Ian McEwan, in which the banal niceties of comfortable
living—dinners, funerals for colleagues, business trips—seem to
conceal great menace … It’s what goes unspoken in so many of these
stories that seems so powerful … An author who deserves serious
consideration."—Kirkus' Reviews
"Enduringly powerful … Constantine’s great skill lies in his
ability to create moments that feel not like authorial intrusions
but rather fleeting recognitions, whether of insurmountable
loneliness or inchoate hope."—Henri Lipton, ZYZZYVA
"After reading David Constantine’s story `In Another Country’ ... I
can’t figure out why a U.S. press hasn’t caught on to his work …
Thankfully, Biblioasis will publish a selection of his stories next
year."—Nicole Rudick, The Paris Review
"There are writers for whom place is a key component of authorial
sensibility … Joyce had Dublin; Faulkner and Twain had their
respective portions of Mississippi. David Constantine … refuse[s]
to restrict [his] settings to background scenery, choosing instead
to fully inhabit the place in which [his] stories unfold …
Constantine’s artistic vision, like the land he takes as his
setting, is bleak and rugged … In [his] universe, art, love and
death are never very far apart."—The Globe and Mail
"... [I]t’s the precision of David Constantine’s prose that gets
you first. His descriptions, his dialogue—it’s all so unnervingly
exact, dropping you into scenes that are both immediately
recognizable and profoundly unsettling."—Beatrice
"[S]adness and pity ... infuse much of this book, but the stories
never suffer from a sense of sameness. That’s because Constantine
begins and ends stories in places few writers would imagine, and in
between he shifts direction in ways few readers will expect."—Star
Tribune
"Set on islands and coasts, furnished with the `silver ladders’ of
streams, featuring wishing wells and even a cursing well, the
virtuoso stories of David Constantine’s In Another Country pulse
with the sounds and rhythms of water, rhythms that draw characters
and readers alike into uncommon and exceptionally profound
emotional depths."—Laurie Greer, Politics and Prose
"I cried when I finished the title story, and I wandered about the
landscapes and houses Constantine created thereafter. The depth of
setting in the stories allows the reader to reflect on characters’
relationship struggles in their homes or temporary dwellings,
whether that means in a field, a book-filled house, or a cave.
There is plight here, even if it sometimes appears small, because
even the closest relationships we grow around us where we live are
never definitively part of us—and each character reacts to this in
a different way."—Todd Wellman, Boswell Book Company
“A masterful touch … The entire collection comprises richly
rewarding, unforgettable stories gathered from over four books and
two decades of work."—Scout Magazine
"[A] work of graceful economy and power, [In Another Country]
displays the very best of Constantine ... The prose is dream-like
and incantatory, in which there lingers something undefined and
unsettling."—Sabotage Reviews
Praise for David Constantine
"Rich and allusive and unashamedly moving."—The Independent
"Spellbinding."—The Irish Times
"An uneasy blend of the exquisite and the everyday ... the
beatific, the ordinary, the rebarbative even, are almost
indistinguishable ... intelligent and well-turned."—The Times
Literary Supplement
"[A] work of graceful economy and power, [In Another Country]
displays the very best of Constantine ... The prose is dream-like
and incantatory, in which there lingers something undefined and
unsettling."—Frank Lawton, Sabotage Reviews
"Perhaps the finest of contemporary writers in this form."—The
Reader
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