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Nina Kossman


TRANSLATES: Russian

Nina Kossman was born in Moscow. She has written poetry and prose in English and in Russian for many years. In the last few years she has been writing plays also. In 1995 she received a UNESCO/PEN short story award, and in 1999 she received an NEA fellowship.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Translations and Poems in Anthologies:

Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths. Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford, 2001.

Divine Inspiration: The Life of Jesus in World Poetry. Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford, 1998.

World Poetry. W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1998.

In the Grip of Strange Thoughts: Contemporary Russian Poetry. Zephyr Press, Sommerville, MA, 1999.

The Gospels in Our Image: An Anthology. Harcourt Brace, New York/San Diego, 1995.

Twentieth Century Russian Poetry Doubleday, 1993.

Poetry in Russian (as Nina Kosman):

in Poberezh'e, Novyi Zhurnal, Vstrechi, Klub Poetov, Vestnik, Novoye Russkoye Slovo.

Books:

Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths. Ed. by Nina Kossman. Oxford University Press, New York, 2001.

Poem of the End: Selected Lyrical and Narrative Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva. Tr. by Nina Kossman with Andrew Newcomb. Ardis Publishers, Dana Pt., CA, 1998.

Po Pravuyu Ruku Sna [To the Right of a Dream]. Poems in Russian and English Poberezh'e (The Coast), Russian-American Publishing, 1996.

Behind the Border,  Lothrop, Lee & Shepard/William Morrow, New York, 1994.

Pereboi,
Poems in Russian and English Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Moscow, 1990.

In the Inmost Hour of the Soul,
Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva. Tr. by Nina Kossman, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 1989.










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