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ANDREW FITZSIMONS was born in Ireland, and lives in Tokyo. He is a Professor at Gakushuin University, Tokyo. As well as essays on Irish poetry, he has published on Beckett and Shakespeare, and contemporary English poetry, and translated from Italian poets, including Dante, Montale and Ungaretti. His study of Thomas Kinsella, 'The Sea of Disappointment', was published in 2008 by UCD Press, and he edited 'Thomas Kinsella: Prose Occasions 1951-2006' (Carcanet, 2009).
His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies in Ireland, Britain, Italy, Japan, the United States, and Canada, including the 'Global Poetry Anthology' 2013. He was runner-up for the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Montreal Prize in 2013. He has published three volumes of poetry, 'What the Sky Arranges' (2013), 'A Fire in the Head' (2014), and 'The Sunken Keep' (2017), all from Isobar Press.
His translation 'Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Matsuo Bashō' was published by the University of California Press in 2022, and received the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Work of Literary Translation (Honorable Mention) from the MLA in 2023.
