PEN Translation Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 36 (1996) Winner
Clare Cavanagh
くれあ・かゔぁなぐ
Kurea Kavanagu
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1956-05-23
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English, Polish, Russian
- Residence History
- University of Wisconsin, Madison → Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)
Career
- Occupations
- Translator, Literary critic, Professor
- Active Years
- 1988-2024
- Affiliations
- Northwestern University, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities
- Memberships
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 2019)
- Influenced By
- Czesław Miłosz, Osip Mandelstam
- Influenced
- Wisława Szymborska, Adam Zagajewski
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California, Santa Cruz | — | — | B.A. | — | United States |
| Harvard University | — | Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures | M.A., Ph.D. | 1978-1988 | United States |
University of California, Santa Cruz
Degree:
B.A.
Year of Graduation:
1978
Country:
United States
推定卒業年
Harvard University
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Degree:
M.A., Ph.D.
Period:
1978-1988
Year of Graduation:
1988
Country:
United States
M.A. in 1981
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism | Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West | Criticism | National Book Critics Circle | 受賞 |
| — | William Riley Parker Prize | — | — | Modern Language Association | 受賞 |
| — | AATSEEL Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Slavic Literature | — | — | American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages | 受賞 |
| — | John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation | — | — | — | 受賞 |
| — | PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for Outstanding Literary Translation | — | — | PEN International | 受賞 |
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism
2011
Work:
Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West
Category:
Criticism
Organization:
National Book Critics Circle
Result:
受賞
William Riley Parker Prize
Organization:
Modern Language Association
Result:
受賞
AATSEEL Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Slavic Literature
Organization:
American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages
Result:
受賞
John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation
Result:
受賞
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize for Outstanding Literary Translation
Organization:
PEN International
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Found in Translation Award
1 appearances
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Edition 4 (2011) Winner
Works
Major Works
Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West
2010 Literary criticismA critical examination of lyric poetry's engagement with modern politics in Russia, Poland, and the West.
Lyric poetryPoliticsSlavic literaturePost-colonialism
Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition
1994 Literary criticismStudy of Osip Mandelstam's role in the modernist creation of tradition.
ModernismRussian poetry
Bibliography
- Czeslaw Milosz and His Age: A Critical Life (under contract)
- Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (associate editor)
Translations by Author
- Map: Collected and Last Poems (Wisława Szymborska, co-tr. Stanisław Barańczak)
- Unseen Hand: Poems (Adam Zagajewski)
- Here (Wisława Szymborska, co-tr. Stanisław Barańczak)
- Eternal Enemies (Adam Zagajewski)
- Monologue of a Dog (Wisława Szymborska, co-tr. Stanisław Barańczak)
- A Defense of Ardor (Adam Zagajewski)
- Nonrequired Reading: Selected Prose (Wisława Szymborska)
- View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems (Wisława Szymborska, co-tr. Stanisław Barańczak)
- Spoiling Cannibals' Fun: Polish Poetry of the Last Two Decades of Communist Rule (ed. and tr. w/ Stanisław Barańczak)
Translations of Works
- Her work has been translated into Russian, Polish, Hungarian, French, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- Clear and scholarly critical stylePoetic nuance preservation in translation
- Recurring Motifs
- Political dimensions of Slavic poetryPost-colonial Polish literature
Legacy
Renowned for her acclaimed translations of contemporary Polish poetry, including Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska. Professor and chair of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. Under contract for authorized biography of Czesław Miłosz.
Academic Societies
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Trivia
- Photographed at the 2010 National Book Critics Circle awards.
- Published a paper on post-colonial literature of Poland.