Louis Michael Iribarne (September 1940 - 5 December 2020) was a Canadian translator of Polish into English. He translated works by

Witold Gombrowicz Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalism, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937, ...

Stanisław Lem Stanisław Herman Lem (; 12 September 1921 – 27 March 2006) was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fi ...

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 ...

Bruno Schulz Bruno Schulz (12 July 1892 – 19 November 1942) was a History of the Jews in Poland, Polish Jewish writer, fine artist, Literary criticism, literary critic and Art education, art teacher. He is regarded as one of the great Polish (language), Po ...

and

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (; 24 February 188518 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, theorist, playwright, novelist, and photographer active before World War I and during the interwar period. ...

. He also taught Polish and Russian literature at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

, where he retired in 1998.

Bibliography

*Louis Iribarne, "

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's ' Red Cavalry' as a Baroque Novel," ''

Contemporary Literature Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II and coincident with contemporary history. Subgenres of contemporary literature include contemporary romance and others. History Literary movements are always contemp ...

'', vol. 14, no. 1 (winter, 1973),

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, pp. 58–77

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, ''

The Chain of Chance ''The Chain of Chance'' (original Polish title: ''Katar'', literally, " Rhinitis"/ Catarrh) is a science fiction/detective novel by the Polish writer Stanisław Lem, published in 1976. Lem's treatment of the detective genre introduces many no ...

'', translated from the Polish by Louis Iribarne, Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1975. *

, ''The Issa Valley'', translated from the Polish by Louis Iribarne, New York, Farrar Straus Giroux,1981. *

, '' Insatiability'', translated by Louis Iribarne, Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press, 1996. *

, ''The Land of Ulro'', translated by Louis Iribarne, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks, May 2000.

References

1940 births 2020 deaths Polish–English translators Translators of Stanisław Lem {{Canada-translator-stub