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

Life

Greenberg was the son of a Jewish couple, immigrants from Lithuania. He was born in

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, 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 from the 1950s to 1970s. Martin graduated from the

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and then served in the

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during

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as 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. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel '' The Slave Dancer''. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 19 ...

. 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

Works

Translations

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Non-fiction

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References

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