Martin Greenberg (February 3, 1918 – May 19, 2021) was an American poet and translator.

Life

Greenberg was the son of a Jewish couple, who were immigrants from Lithuania. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia in February 1918. His elder brother,

Clement Greenberg Clement Greenberg () (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formali ...

, was an influential art critic in the United States in the 1950s to 1970s. Martin graduated from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

and then served in

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

becoming a staff sergeant. On June 9, 1962, he married

Paula Fox Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the ...

. Martin had a son, David, from a previous marriage, and three stepchildren; Linda, Adam and Gabriel. His translations have appeared in ''

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''. He died in

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in May 2021 at the age of 103.Martin Greenberg obituary
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Awards

* 1989

Harold Morton Landon Translation Award The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach ...

Works

Translations

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Non-fiction

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References

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