Gjekë Marinaj

Teach Me How to Whisper

Horses and Other Poems
Übersetzer: Turner, Frederick; Marinaj, Gjekë

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This is the first book of Albanian poet Gjekèe Marinaj's work available in English. The poems cover a vast array of subjects, from rebellious anthems of freedom to Nostos, the longing for home"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Seitenzahl: 223
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780815611639
• ISBN-10: 0815611633
• Artikelnr.: 67743596

Autorenporträt

Gjekë Marinaj is an Albanian-born American poet, world literature scholar, translator, and literary critic. He has received several international awards, including two National Insignia Prizes from the Vietnam Writers' Association, Italy's International Author Prize, Uzbekistan's Poet of the World Prize, West Bengal's World Poet Prize, India's ISISAR Award for seeking peace through literature, and South Korea's Changwon KC International Literary Prize. He has received multiple nominations for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Frederick Turner is Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities emeritus at the University of Texas at Dallas. A prolific and award-winning author of over forty books that include literary criticism, poetry, and science fiction, he is also a celebrated translator. His works include Light within the Shade: Eight Hundred Years of Hungarian Poetry, which he coedited and co-translated with Zsuzsanna Ozsváth.