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| Daniel Weissbort |
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Daniel Weissbort was born in 1935 and educated at St. Pauls School,
London and Cambridge University. In 1965, with the late Ted Hughes, he
founded the journal Modern Poetry in Translation, which he edited
up to 2004. In the early Seventies he went to America where he directed
the Translation Workshop and MFA Program in Translation, at the University
of Iowa for over thirty years.
He is Professor (Emeritus) English and Comparative Literature, University
of Iowa, Research Fellow in the English Department, at King's College London
University, and Honorary Professor in the Centre for Translation and Comparative
Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick.
Daniel Weissbort's anthologies of Russian poetry and of East European
poetry are known and he has also published several collections of his own
poetry. Anvil Press has published his translational memoir of the late
Joseph Brodsky, From Russian with Love. He has co-edited for Oxford
University Press, a historical reader in translation theory, which has
just been published. For the same publisher he is writing a book on Ted
Hughes and Translation and for Faber he has edited the Selected Translations
of Ted Hughes.
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