1. Elaine Feinstein joined the Council of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.
16 Facts About Elaine Feinstein
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Elaine Feinstein's father had left school at 12 and had little time for books, but he was a great storyteller.
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Elaine Feinstein ran a small factory making wooden furniture through the 1930s.
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Elaine Feinstein wrote poems from the age of eight, which were published in the school magazine.
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Elaine Feinstein married and had three sons with her husband, Arnold Elaine Feinstein.
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Elaine Feinstein received three translation awards from the Arts Council.
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Elaine Feinstein visited Russia occasionally to research her books and visit friends, who included Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
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Elaine Feinstein's writings included 14 novels, many radio plays, television dramas, and five biographies, including A Captive Lion: the Life of Marina Tsvetaeva and Pushkin.
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Elaine Feinstein's poetry was influenced by Black Mountain poets, and by Objectivists.
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Elaine Feinstein later became a conduit between the Cambridge poets and the Black Mountain poets.
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Elaine Feinstein was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at Bellagio in 1998; her poems were widely anthologised.
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Elaine Feinstein's Collected Poems and Translations was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation, and she was appointed to the Council of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.
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Elaine Feinstein 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.
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Elaine Feinstein participated in the 22nd Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in November 2010 and continued to give readings in various countries.
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Elaine Feinstein died of cancer in London on 23 September 2019, aged 88.
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Elaine Feinstein was survived by her three sons and six grandchildren.