Education
He has studied both classics and business.
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Timothy Ades
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Career
As a translator, he works mainly with French, German and Spanish rhymed poems, translating them into English. His books are:
Victor Hugo, How to be a Grandfather
Jean Cassou, 33 Sonnets of the Resistance
Jean Cassou, The Madness of Amadis
Victor Hugo, The Big Story of the Lion
Alberto Arvelo Torrealba, Florentino and the Devil
Robert Desnos, Storysongs/Chantefables.
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He was educated as a King"s Scholar at Eton College, where he won the Newcastle Scholarship in 1959, at Balliol College, Oxford and at European Institute of Business Administration (Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires), Fontainebleau. He is a past winner of the John Dryden Prize with Victor Hugo"s Moscow, Waterloo, Street Helena and the TLS Premio Valle-Inclán Prize with Homer in Cuernavaca by Alfonso Reyes, among other awards.
