Antoinette Fawcett

Antoinette is a highly experienced teacher and lecturer and has taught students of all age groups, including at pre-university and university level, both in the UK and abroad. She is a founder member of the Norman Nicholson Society, a literary society devoted to the celebration of the life and work of Norman Nicholson (1914-1987), a 20^th-century Cumbrian poet and writer of national and international standing. As the editor of the magazine and online bulletins of the Norman Nicholson Society, Antoinette has served on its committee since 2006. In recent years she has worked as a freelance literary translator, from Dutch to English, and has had works published by Palgrave Macmillan, Continuum, Pushkin Press and Saraband Books, as well in a range of literary magazines and academic journals. In 2016 she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester, combining her interest in Norman Nicholson with her expertise in translation studies and finding much evidence for the translation and reception of his work beyond the English-speaking world. She received a Hawthornden Fellowship in January 2015 and has won various prizes and commendations for her poetry and translations. Antoinette’s teaching style is lively and interactive and draws on the full breadth of her experience and expertise.

Student feedback, Poetry and Translation Dec 2025:

An excellent course. Both this and Antoinette's introduction to Norman Nicholson have been extremely well received by the students. Antoinette is fun, erudite, enthusiastic and well organised.

After her excellent Poetry and Translation course, ending today...we, her eager, poetry course starved students, urge that she be brought back as soon as possible!