Ruth Fainlight FRSL (born 2 May 1931) is an American-born poet, short story writer, translator and librettist based in the United Kingdom.
[2] In addition to her own works, Fainlight has also provided criticism for BBC Radio, The Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and numerous other publications.
Fainlight was married to the British writer Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010)[3][4] and has a son, David, who is a photographer for The Guardian, and an adopted daughter, Susan.
M. Rosenberg & D. Samoilovich, Cosmopoetica, Cordoba, Spain The poem "Sugar-Paper Blue" was translated into Russian by Marina Boroditskaya and is published in the April 2003 issue of the Moscow monthly Inostrannaya Literatura (Foreign Literature).
The poem sequence "Sheba and Solomon" has been translated into Russian by Marina Boroditskaya and published in Moscow in the literary magazine Novaya Younost in 2003.