Roger Greenwald
TRANSLATES: Norwegian, Swedish
Roger Greenwald grew up in New York, where he attended The City College and the St. Marks in the Bouwerie Poetry Project workshop. He has earned several major awards for his poetry and translations, including the prize for poetry of the Norma Epstein National Competition, the CBC Radio/Saturday Night Literary Award for poetry, the F. R. Scott Translation Prize, the Richard Wilbur Translation Prize, the American-Scandinavian Foundation Translation Prize (twice), and the Inger Sjöberg Translation Prize.
In 2003, he took First Prize in the Travel Literature category of the CBC Literary Awards, for a story called "Dents in the Laurentians." Greenwald has published one book of poems, Connecting Flight, and several volumes of poetry in translation, including Paal-Helge Haugen’s Stone Fences and Wintering With the Light; Jacques Werup’s The Time in Malmö on the Earth; and more recently, Through Naked Branches: Selected Poems of Tarjei Vesaas—which was a finalist for the 2001 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation—and North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Translations
North in the World: Selected Poems of Rolf Jacobsen. University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Through Naked Branches: Selected Poems of Tarjei Vesaas. Princeton University Press, 2000.
Wintering with the Light, Paal-Helge Haugen. Sun & Moon Press, 1997.
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