The Department of Comparative Literature
Lecture
Presents
Richard Sieburth
Please join us for an afternoon conversation with Richard Sieburth, whom Harold Bloom has called “one of the handful of magnificent literary translators among us.” Sieburth will discuss “a life in translation,” with Peter Cole.
Richard Sieburth’s translations of Friederich Hölderlin, Maurice Scève, Louise Labé, Nostradamus, Gérard de Nerval, George Büchner, Henri Michaux, and others have been praised far and wide, as has his scholarship and editorial work—specifically, the Ezra Pound Library of America volume, and recent New Direction editions of the Pisan Cantos and Selected Poems. Winner of the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, Sieburth is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Emeritus professor of English, French, and Comparative Literature at NYU.
Co-Sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and French, and the Macmillan Translation Initiative