Michael Schmidt - literary critic, anthologist, poet, translator, novelist, publisherMichael Schmidt - literary critic, anthologist, poet, translator, novelist, publisherMichael Schmidt - literary critic, anthologist, poet, translator, novelist, publisher

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Michael Schmidt was born in Mexico on 2 March 1947. He made his home in England after com­pleting his studies at Oxford University. He is a co-founder (1969), edit­orial and man­aging dir­ector of Carcanet Press Limited, and co-founder (1972) and general editor of the lit­erary journal PN Review. He has held aca­demic posts at the uni­ver­sities of Manchester, Glasgow and Cambridge. He has written poetry, fiction and lit­erary history, and is a trans­lator and antho­lo­gist. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Michael received an OBE in 2006 for ser­vices to poetry and higher edu­ca­tion, and the University of Manchester’s Honour Medal in 2025, for his achieve­ments locally, nation­ally and internationally.

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