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George Messo Editor, Translator & Author

George Messo was born in 1969. Apart from his own poetry, his books include The Complete Poems of Jean Genet (translated with Jeremy Reed) and a forthcoming Selected Poems of Ilhan Berk, translated from the Turkish. He has received a Council of Europe Translation Award for his versions of Rainer Maria Rilke and was Hawthornden Fellow in Poetry for June/July 2002 at Hawthornden Castle, Scotland.