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Clare Cavanagh


TRANSLATES: Polish, Russian

Clare Cavanagh holds the Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professorship in Literature at Northwestern University. She has translated numerous volumes of Polish poetry and prose, most notably the work of Adam Zagajewski and Wislawa Szymborska. She is the author of Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition (1995) and Poetry and Power: Russia, Poland and the West, forthcoming from Yale University Press. She is currently working on an authorized biography of Czeslaw Milosz, entitled Czeslaw Milosz and His Age: A Critical Life, which will be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.





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