Meet Ruth Fainlight

Ruth Fainlight
Ruth Fainlight is a noted British poet, short story writer, translator and librettist. Among her many honors are a 1987 Hawthornden Fellowship and the 1994 Cholmondeley Award for Poetry. Her libretto for the Royal Opera House's Garden Venture program of new opera was short-listed for the Laurence Olivier Award in 1992.

Published Works

The Theban Plays
Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

Sophocles
translated, with notes and an introduction, by Ruth Fainlight and Robert J. Littman

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