Anne Blonstein, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Anne Blonstein

British poet, translator living Basel, Switzerland

Date of Birth: 22-Apr-1958

Date of Death: 19-Apr-2011

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Anne D.
Blonstein (22 April 1958 – 19 April 2011) was a British poet and translator, long-resident in Basel, Switzerland, where she worked as a freelance translator and editor.She was the author of six full-length collections, the blue pearl, worked on screen, memory's morning, the butterflies and the burnings, correspondence with nobody, and to be continued.
She was also known for her poetic sequences that work with notarikon — originally a rabbinic and Kabbalistic method used to interpret the Hebrew Scriptures.
She redeployed and elaborated it as a contemporary poetic procedure, engaging with diverse languages and texts, both ancient and modern.