Author Benjamin Ivry is a New York based writer on the arts, a broadcaster, and a lecturer. He also translates from the French (Albert Camus: A Life (Knopf). Ivry is author of a new poetry collection, Paradise for the Portuguese Queen (Orchises Press), a sample of which may be consulted on www.amazon.com . The book has been praised by Muriel Spark and Richard Howard and has been positively reviewed in Publishers Weekly and the Lambda Book Report. It contains poems that first appeared in, among other places, The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The Spectator, Ambit Magazine, and The New Republic.

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Artcyclopedia, Damien Hirst

BBC, "Elephant Dung Artist Scoops Award"

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