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Kirk Nesset is the author of a book of short stories, Paradise Road, and The Stories of Raymond Carver (nonfiction). His book of translations, Alphabet of the World: Selected Work of Eugenio Montejo, is forthcoming at University of Oklahoma Press. The recipient of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize in 2007, a Pushcart Prize, and grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the…
William Matthews‘s most recent book is Selected Poems & Translations 1969-1991 (Houghton Mifflin).
J. D. McClatchy is the author of six collections of poems, most recently Mercury Dressing (Knopf). His book of translations, Seven Mozart Librettos, appeared last year from Norton. He teaches at Yale, is editor of The Yale Review, and lives in Stonington, Connecticut.
Jeanne Larsen’s first book James Cook in Search of Terra Incognita, won the AWP award competition in poetry. She has since published three novels– Silk Road, Bronze Mirror and Manchu Palaces–and two books of translations, Brocade River Poems: Selected Works of the Tang Dynasty Courtesan Xue Tao and Willow, Wine, Mirror, Moon: Women’s Poems from Tang China. She teaches at Hollins University….
Primo Levi was born in Turin in 1919. His collection of concentration camp stories, entitled Moments of Reprieve, will be published this winter in Ruth Feldman’s translation, by Simon & Schuster. Levi, a survivor of Auschwitz, is the author of several important novels depicting the extermination of the Jews. All these poems here are from At an…
Naguib Mahfouz is the Arab world’s foremost fiction writer. Heinemann has published two of his books, Midaq Alley and Miramar, and is preparing his vast trilogy, the first volume of which, Between two Castles, was scheduled to appear last fall. Alleways, written in 1975, is the story of a boy growing up in the Cairo of 1919 to 1930, the…
Kerry Shawn Keys’ roots are in the Appalachian Mountains. From 1998 to 2000, he taught translation theory and creative composition as a Fulbright Associate Professor at Vilnius University. He has dozens of books to his credit, including translations from Portuguese (Requiem, Ledo Ivo, 2011) and Lithuanian, and his own poems informed by rural America and…
Thomas Kinsella was born in Dublin in 1928. Besides books from Dolmen Press, Dublin, in association with Oxford University Press, and from Wake Forest University Press, he has published translations from the Irish, including the Iron-Age prose epic The Tain (1969) and Poems of the Dispossessed 1600-1900 (1981). He also edited the New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, with all…
Karl Krolow is the author of more than twenty volumes of poetry. He has also written criticism and fiction. His translations from the French, Spanish, and occasionally American, are distinguished by wide literary culture and immaculate technique. Krolow lives in Darmstadt, West Germany.
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