Clare Cavanagh (born May 23, 1956) is an American literary critic, a
Slavist
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, and a translator. She is the Frances Hooper Professor in the Arts and Humanities and Chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
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. An acclaimed translator of contemporary Polish poetry, she is currently under contract to write the authorized biography of
Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, ...
. She holds a B.A from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.A. and PhD from
Harvard University
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(1978, 1981 and 1988 respectively). Before coming to Northwestern University, she taught at the
University of Wisconsin
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, Madison. Her work has been translated into Russian, Polish, Hungarian, French, Dutch, Chinese, and Japanese.
She has published a paper about post-colonial literature of Poland.
Awards and honors
Her honors include: the
National Book Critics Circle Award
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of the Modern Language Association; the AATSEEL Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Book in Slavic Literature; the Ilchester Lecture in Slavonic Literatures, Oxford University; the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize in Translation; the Katharine Washburne Memorial Lecture in Translation; the
PEN
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/Book-of-the Month Club Prize for Outstanding Literary Translation; the AATSEEL Award for Outstanding Translation from a Slavic Language; elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019. Cavanagh's essays and translations “have appeared in TLS, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Bookforum, Partisan Review, Common Knowledge, Poetry, Literary Imagination and other periodicals.”“Northwestern University Faculty Webpage” ''Slavic Department at Northwestern University'', Evanston. Retrieved on 20 July 2015.
Selected bibliography
Books
*Czeslaw Milosz and His Age: A Critical Life. Under contract, Farrar Straus, Giroux.
*''Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West''. Yale University Press (January 5, 2010), ,
*''Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition''. Princeton University Press (November 14, 1994), ,
Edited books
*''Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', Roland Greene, editor-in-chief, Stephen Cushman, general editor, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, Paul Rouzer, associate editors, Princeton University Press, 2012.
Translations
*''Map: Collected and Last Poems'', Wislawa Szymborska, ed. Clare Cavanagh, tr. Clare Cavanagh, Stanislaw Baranczak. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (April 7, 2015), ,
*''Unseen Hand: Poems'', Adam Zagajewski, tr. Clare Cavanagh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition (June 5, 2012), ,
*''Here'', Wislawa Szymborska, tr. Clare Cavanagh, Stanislaw Baranczak. Mariner Books (August 7, 2012), ,
*''Eternal Enemies'', Adam Zagajewski, tr. Clare Cavanagh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (March 31, 2009), ,
*''Monologue of a Dog'', Wislawa Szymborska. Co-translator with Stanislaw Baranczak. Foreword by former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Harcourt (November 7, 2005), ,
*''A Defense of Ardor'', Adam Zagajewski, tr. Clare Cavanagh. Farrar Straus Giroux (October 19, 2004), ,
*''Nonrequired Reading: Selected Prose'', Wislawa Szymborska, tr. Clare Cavanagh. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (October 28, 2002), ,
*''View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems'', Wislawa Szymborska, co-tr. Clare Cavanagh with Stanislaw Baranczak. Harcourt Brace (May 26, 1995), ,
*''Spoiling Cannibals' Fun: Polish Poetry of the Last Two Decades of Communist Rule'', ed. and tr. Clare Cavanagh with Stanislaw Baranczak. Northwestern University Press, (December 1991), ,
Osip Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam ( rus, Осип Эмильевич Мандельштам, p=ˈosʲɪp ɨˈmʲilʲjɪvʲɪtɕ mənʲdʲɪlʲˈʂtam; – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the A ...
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Adam Zagajewski
Adam Zagajewski (21 June 1945 – 21 March 2021) was a Polish poet, novelist, translator, and essayist. He was awarded the 2004 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, the 2017 P ...
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Wisława Szymborska
Maria Wisława Anna SzymborskaVioletta Szosta gazeta.pl, 9 February 2012. ostęp 2012-02-11 (; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Prowent ( ...
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Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz (, also , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. Regarded as one of the great poets of the 20th century, he won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its citation, ...
Culture during the Cold War
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American poetry
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Polish poetry
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Prominent Polish poets include
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Modernist poetry
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Stanisław Barańczak
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