Name Rika Lesser | Role Poet | |
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Awards State Literary Award for Best Translation of Greek Literature Books Hansel and Gretel, Etruscan things, All we need of hell, Growing back |
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Rika Lesser (born 1953 Brooklyn, New York) is a U.S. poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works.
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- Public poetry ex libris rika lesser on richard howard
- Rika lesser
- Life
- Awards
- Poetry
- Translations
- References
Rika lesser
Life
Lesser has produced three collections of her own poetry, including Etruscan Things (1983), and her prose translations include A Living Soul by P. C. Jersild and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
Awards
In 1982, she was awarded the Landon Poetry Translation Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and received the Poetry Translation Prize of the Swedish Academy in 1996 and in 2003.
Poetry
Translations
References
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