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Marilyn Hacker

マリリン・ハッカー

Marilyn Hacker

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1942-11-27 （Bronx, New York, United States）
国籍
United States
言語
English, French
宗教
Judaism (background)
居住地歴
New York (Bronx; East Village, Manhattan) → Paris (residence)

経歴

職業
Poet, Translator, Critic, Professor of English (emerita)
活動期間
1965年〜
所属
City College of New York (Professor emerita), CUNY Graduate Center (faculty), Kenyon Review (former editor), Academy of American Poets (former Chancellor)
影響を受けた人物
Tradition of French poets (formal verse influence), Formalist poets (sonnet, villanelle traditions)
影響を与えた人物
Contemporary poets working in formal verse and translation

学歴

New York University
College of Arts and Science (Romance Languages) / Romance Languages
学位: B.A.
期間: 1960年代前半
卒業年: 1964
国: United States
Enrolled at age 15; received B.A. in 1964

受賞歴

National Book Award (Poetry)
1975
対象作品: Presentation Piece
部門: 詩
主催: National Book Foundation
結果: 受賞
Willis Barnstone Translation Prize
2003
主催: Willis Barnstone Translation Prize organization
結果: 受賞
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
2009
対象作品: King of a Hundred Horsemen (by Marie Étienne; translated by Marilyn Hacker)
主催: PEN America
結果: 受賞
Robert Fagles Translation Prize (National Poetry Series)
2009
対象作品: King of a Hundred Horsemen (by Marie Étienne; translated by Marilyn Hacker)
主催: National Poetry Series
結果: 受賞（第1回）
PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry
2010
主催: PEN America
結果: 受賞
Lambda Literary Award
対象作品: Winter Numbers
部門: 詩
主催: Lambda Literary
結果: 受賞
Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
対象作品: Winter Numbers
部門: 詩
主催: The Nation (Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize)
結果: 受賞
Poets' Prize
1996
対象作品: Selected Poems 1965-1990
主催: Poets' Prize organization
結果: 受賞
Audre Lorde Award
2001
対象作品: Squares and Courtyards
主催: Audre Lorde Award organization
結果: 受賞
Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
2004
主催: American Academy of Arts and Letters
結果: 受賞
PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (shortlisted)
2013
対象作品: Tales of a Severed Head (by Rachida Madani; translated by Marilyn Hacker)
主催: PEN America
結果: ノミネート（ショートリスト）
New York Writers Hall of Fame
2013
主催: New York Writers Hall of Fame
結果: 殿堂入り

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Presentation Piece

1974年 Poetry

An early landmark collection employing formal verse; winner of the 1975 National Book Award.

formpersonal memorylove

Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons

1986年 Poetry (verse novel in sonnets)

A verse novel composed of sonnets exploring love, loss, and seasonal change.

lovedeathseasonsform

Winter Numbers

1995年 Poetry

A collection that addresses the loss of friends to AIDS and Hacker's own struggle with breast cancer.

illness and losscommunitymourning

Squares and Courtyards

2000年 Poetry

A formally attentive collection combining personal and political themes; winner of the Audre Lorde Award.

formpoliticspersonal memory

Blazons: New and Selected Poems, 2000-2018

2019年 Poetry

A new and selected collection from 2000 onward, showing variety of forms and themes.

formidentitymemory

Calligraphies

2023年 Poetry

A recent collection reflecting formal variety and the perspective of a translator-poet.

calligraphic imagerytranslatabilityform

全著作

  • Presentation Piece (1974)
  • Separations (1976)
  • Taking Notice (1980)
  • Assumptions (1985)
  • Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986)
  • Going Back to the River (1990)
  • The Hang-Glider's Daughter: New and Selected Poems (1991)
  • Selected Poems: 1965 - 1990 (1994)
  • Winter Numbers: Poems (1995)
  • Squares and Courtyards (2000)
  • Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002 (2003)
  • First Cities: Collected Early Poems 1960-1979 (2003)
  • Essays on Departure: New and Selected Poems (2006)
  • Names: Poems (2009)
  • A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994 - 2014 (2015)
  • Blazons: New and Selected Poems, 2000 - 2018 (2019)
  • Calligraphies: Poems (2023)

作家による翻訳

  • King of a Hundred Horsemen (by Marie Étienne, trans. Marilyn Hacker)
  • Charlestown Blues (by Guy Goffette, trans. Marilyn Hacker)
  • Birds and Bison (by Claire Malroux, trans. Marilyn Hacker)
  • Tales of a Severed Head (by Rachida Madani, trans. Marilyn Hacker)

作風・主題

文体
Use of strict forms (sonnets, villanelles, rondeaux, etc.)Linguistic precision shaped by translator's sensibilityBlend of personal experience and political subjects
頻出モチーフ
love and sexmemory, family, communityloss (including AIDS)food and domestic life imageryexile and diaspora

健康

  • Breast cancer
    1990年代（具体年不詳）
    Affected thematic concerns in her poetry, producing work on illness and loss (e.g., Winter Numbers).

評価・遺産

A poet acclaimed for formal mastery and translation; winner of the National Book Award and many other honors, she has served in public roles such as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and is considered an important figure in contemporary English-language poetry.

関連学会

  • Academy of American Poets

資料所蔵先

  • Marilyn Hacker Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

大衆文化への影響

  • Her poem is reprinted in Samuel R. Delany's memoirs and she appears in recollections of contemporaries.

豆知識

  • Enrolled at New York University at age 15.
  • Was married to Samuel R. Delany; later divorced.
  • Lives in New York and Paris.
  • Renowned both as a poet and as a translator.