whom Hamburger greatly admired, and to whose sixtieth-birthday biblio-symposium he contributed an eponymous poem of four stanzas which tells its own story. Michael Hamburger was honoured with the Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Preis für Übersetzung in 1964 and with the Petrarca-Preis in 1992. He died on 7 June 2007 at his home in Suffolk. References String of Beginnings: Intermittent Memoirs 1924 to 1954 (Skoob Books Publishing, 1991), his autobiography, edited by Lucien Jenkins Michael Hamburger in Conversation with Peter Dale by Peter Dale () Selected bibliography Translations New Poems Günter Grass (translator) English translation Harcourt, Brace,& World, Inc. Copyright 1968 Charles Baudelaire, Twenty Prose Poems (translator), London, Poetry London, 1946 (revised ed. San Francisco, City Light Books 1988) Flowering Cactus: poems 1942–1949, Aldington, Hand and Flower Press, 1950 – out of print Poems of Hölderlin (translator), Poetry London 1943, (revised ed. as Holderlin: His Poems, Harvill Press, 1952) – out of print Ludwig van Beethoven, Letters, Journals and Conversations. London, Thames & Hudson, 1951 – out of print.Trakl, Decline (translator), St. Ives, Guido Morris/Latin Press, 1952 – out of printA. Goes, The Burnt Offering (translator), London, Gollancz, 1956 – out of printBertolt Brecht, Tales from the Calendar (translator), London, Methuen, 1961 (reissued London, Lion & Unicorn Press 1980) – out of printHugo von Hofmannsthal, Poems and Verse Plays (translator with others), Routledge & K. Paul, and New York, Bollingen Foundation, 1961 – out of printModern German Poetry 1910–1960 (translator with C Middleton), Routledge, and New York, McGibbon & Kee, 1962 – out of printJ C F Hölderlin, Selected Verse (translator), Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin, 1961 (latest ed. London, Anvil, 1986)Nelly Sachs, Selected Poems (translator), Jonathan Cape and New York, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1968 – out of printHans Magnus Enzensberger, The Poems of Hans Magnus Enzensberger (translator with J Rothenberg and the author), London, Secker & Warburg, 1968 – out of printH M Enzensberger, Poems for People Who Don't Read Poems (translator), Secker & Warburg, 1968 – out of printAn Unofficial Rilke (translator), London, Anvil Press, 1981 – out of printPaul Celan, Poems (translator), Manchester, Carcanet, 1972 (new enlarged ed. as Poems of Paul Celan, New York, Persea, 1988 and 2002, and Anvil Press, 2007)Friedrich Hölderlin, Selected poems and Fragments (translator), Penguin Classics, 1998 (new ed. 2007) W. G. Sebald, After Nature (translator), London, Hamish Hamilton, 2002 W. G. Sebald, Unrecounted (translator), Hamish Hamilton, 2004 ProseReason and Energy, London, Routledge & K. Paul, 1957 –