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Name
  
Claire White


Role
  
Poet

Claire Nicolas White httpswwwsmithedupoetrycenterwpwpcontentu

Books
  
Elusive Harbors, The Elephant and the R, Snapshots, The death of the orange tr, Biography & other poems

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Claire Nicolas White (born 1925) is an American poet, novelist and translator of Dutch literature. She is a niece of Aldous Huxley and the granddaughter-in-law of architect Stanford White.

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Life

White was born in the Netherlands, the daughter of Joep Nicolas, a Dutch stained-glass artist who emigrated to America just before World War II. She grew up in the European exile community in New York. Her husband, the sculptor Robert White, is the grandson of Stanford White.

White's literary papers are held by Stony Brook University.

Translations

  • (tr. with Louise Varèse) The time of our lives by Martine Rouchaud, 1946.
  • The assault by Harry Mulisch, 1985. Translated from the Dutch.
  • La nuit de mai = A Night in May by Alfred de Musset, 1989. Translated from the French.
  • A Letter of Time by Hans van de Waarsenburg, 1989. Translated from the Dutch (5 of the 7 poems).
  • The vanishing by Tim Krabbé, 1993. Translated from the Dutch.
  • My father's war: a novel by Adriaan van Dis, 1996. Translated from the Dutch.
  • Other

  • Joep Nicolas: leven en werk, 1979
  • The bridge, 1987
  • River boy, 1988
  • (ed.) Stanford White: letters to his family : including a selection of letters to Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1997
  • References

    Claire Nicolas White Wikipedia


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