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| Lesser, Rika |
Translates: Swedish, German
Translations
What Became Words: Poems, Claes Andersson. Sun & Moon, 1996.
A Child Is Not a Knife: Selected Poems, Göran Sonnevi. Princeton, 1993.
My Sister Lotta and Me, Helena Dahlbäck. Henry Holt, 1993
A Hand Full of Stars, Rafik Schami. Dutton, 1990; Penguin, 1992.
Agnes Cecilia, Maria Gripe. Harper & Row, 1990.
A Living Soul, P. C. Jersild. Norvik Press, 1988; revised 2003.
The Hideout, Sigrid Heuck, Dutton, 1990; Faber & Faber, 1991.
Rilke: Between Roots, poems rendered from the German. Princeton, 1986.
Hansel and Gretel. Dodd Mead, 1984; Putnam, 1988.
Pictor's Metamorphoses and Other Fantasies, Hermann Hesse. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982; Jonathan Cape, 1983.
Hours in the Garden and Other Poems, Hermann Hesse. FSG, 1979; Cape 1980.
Guide to the Underworld, Gunnar Ekelöf. Massachusetts, 1980.
Work Online:
Translations of sections from Göran Sonnevi's long poem "Mozart's Third Brain" on Words Without Borders, Cipher Journal, Typo 7, Guernica.
Currently working on:
I continue to translate Göran Sonnevi's work. He was just awarded the Nordic Council's Literary Prize (2006) for his new book The Ocean. I am serving as the Swedish-language editor for the forthcoming Graywolf anthology The New European Poets, mostly in an editorial capacity, but to some extent translating some poets of my own generation and later. Finally, revising very slightly for republication by Green Integer my translation of Ekelöf's Guide to the Underworld.
PEN Recommends: The Auden/Sjöberg translation of Ekelöf's Selected Poems (Pantheon/Penguin), which contained almost all the poems from Diwan over the Prince of Emgion and The Tale of Fatumeh.
Contact information:
Telephone: (718) 852-1163
E-mail: rika.lesser.mc.74@aya.yale.edu or rikalesser@verizon.net
Rika Lesser is the author of three volumes of poetry, Etruscan Things, All We Need of Hell, and Growing Back, and the translator of collections of poems by Hesse, Rilke, Claes Andersson, Gunnar Ekelöf, and Göran Sonnevi. She teaches poetry or translation at Columbia University, School of the Arts, the New School University, and the 92nd Street Y. She has completed a new book of poems entitled Questions of Love.
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