David Constantine

David Constantine has published several volumes of poetry, and two novels (most recently The Life-Writer) as well as five short story collections: Back at the Spike (1994), the highly acclaimed Under the Dam (2005), The Shieling (2009), Tea at the Midland (2012), and The Dressing-Up Box (2019), as well as In Another Country: Selected Stories(2015), the title story of which was adapted by Andrew Haigh into 45 Years – an Oscar-nominated film, and starring Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling. He is the winner of the BBC National Short Story Award (2010) and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award (2013). He is also translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux and Jaccottet. He lives in Oxford.