Paul Vincent, MA, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Department of Dutch, UCL

Paul Vincent studied at Cambridge and Amsterdam, and after teaching Dutch at the University of London for over 20 years became a full-time translator in 1989. In 2011, having twice won the Reid Poetry Translation Prize, he was awarded the Vondel Dutch Translation Prize for his version of Louis Paul Boon's My Little War. In 2015, he published an open access translation of a selection of Herman Gorter's Poems of 1890, which was included in Times Higher Education's Books of the Year. He is an...See more

Paul Vincent studied at Cambridge and Amsterdam, and after teaching Dutch at the University of London for over 20 years became a full-time translator in 1989. In 2011, having twice won the Reid Poetry Translation Prize, he was awarded the Vondel Dutch Translation Prize for his version of Louis Paul Boon's My Little War. In 2015, he published an open access translation of a selection of Herman Gorter's Poems of 1890, which was included in Times Higher Education's Books of the Year. He is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Dutch at UCL. See less