literary critic
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, 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
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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 ( , , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish Americans, Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish language, Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the ...
. 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
The National Book Critics Circle Awards are a set of annual American literary awards by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English".William Riley Parker Prize 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 Stanislav and variants may refer to:
People
*Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.)
Places
* Stanislav, Kherson Oblast, a coastal village in Ukraine
* Stanislaus County, ...
. 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 Stanislav and variants may refer to:
People
*Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.)
Places
* Stanislav, Kherson Oblast, a coastal village in Ukraine
* Stanislaus County, ...
. Northwestern University Press, (December 1991), ,
See also
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Russian Literature
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Osip Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (, ; – 27 December 1938) was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school.
Osip Mandelstam was arrested during the repressions of the 1930s and sent into internal exile wi ...
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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 ...
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Wisława Szymborska
Maria Wisława Anna SzymborskaVioletta Szostagazeta.pl, 9 February 2012. ostęp 11 February 2012 (; 2 July 1923 – 1 February 2012) was a Polish people, Polish poet, essayist, translator, and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Liter ...
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Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz ( , , ; 30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish Americans, Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat. He primarily wrote his poetry in Polish language, Polish. Regarded as one of the great poets of the ...
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Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist. Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) in the Soviet Union, Brodsky ran afoul of Soviet authorities and was expelled ("strongly ...
Culture during the Cold War
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American poetry
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Russian poetry
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Polish poetry
Polish poetry has a centuries-old history, similar to the Polish literature.
Prominent Polish poets include
*Marcin Bielski (1495–1575); Polish historian, chronicler, writer and Renaissance satirical poet, first to use Polish, hence his design ...
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Literary criticism
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Translation
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Modernist poetry
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Stanisław Barańczak
Stanisław Barańczak (, November 13, 1946December 26, 2014) was a Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer. He is perhaps most well known for his English-to- Polish translations of the dramas of William Shakes ...