Richard Berengarten was born on 4 June 1943 and is an English poet.
17 Facts About Richard Berengarten
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Richard Berengarten's poems explore historical and political material, inner worlds and their archetypal resonances, and relationships and everyday life.
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Richard Berengarten's work is marked by its multicultural frames of reference, depth of themes, and variety of forms.
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Richard Berengarten has been an important presence in contemporary poetry for the past 40 years, and his work has been translated into more than 90 languages.
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Richard Berengarten was born in London in 1943 of Jewish parents.
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Richard Berengarten was educated at Normansal School, Hereward House School, Hendon County School and Mill Hill School.
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Richard Berengarten studied English at Pembroke College, Cambridge and Linguistics at University College London.
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Richard Berengarten has lived in Italy, Greece, the UK, the US and the former Yugoslavia, and worked extensively in the Czech Republic, Latvia, Macedonia, Poland, Russia and Slovakia.
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Richard Berengarten has travelled widely throughout West Europe, the Balkans and the USA, and in Japan, India and China.
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Richard Berengarten published his first story at the age of 16 in Transatlantic Review.
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Richard Berengarten worked in Padua and Venice, briefly as apprentice to the English poet Peter Russell.
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Richard Berengarten's posts include: the British Council, Athens ; East London College ; Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology ; Arts Council resident writer, Victoria Centre for Adult Education ; Visiting Professor, Notre Dame University ; and British Council Lector, Belgrade.
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Richard Berengarten is an authority on creative writing for children and adults, and on writing skills for university students.
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Richard Berengarten was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge, Project Fellow, and is currently a Preceptor at Corpus Christi College, a Bye-Fellow at Downing College and an Academic Associate at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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Richard Berengarten teaches at Peterhouse and Wolfson College, Cambridge, a Fellow of the English Association, and poetry editor of the Jewish Quarterly.
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Richard Berengarten visited the site and the memorial museum in 1985, when a blue butterfly landed on the forefinger of his writing hand.
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Richard Berengarten was made an honorary citizen of Kragujevac in 2012, and the title poem is well known in the former Yugoslavia through the translation by Danilo Kis and Ivan V Lalic.