Rika Lesser
Rika Lesser (born 1953 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works.
Rika Lesser
- Name
- Rika Lesser
- Born
- 1953
- Birthplace
- New York City, U.S.
- Occupation
- * Poet
- Education
- Yale University University of Gothenburg Columbia University (MFA)
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
- Languages
- German · English
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• Name — Rika Lesser • Born — 1953 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Occupation — * Poet • translator • Education — Yale University University of Gothenburg Columbia University (MFA)
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Rika Lesser (born 21 July 1953) is described as a poet and translator in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The birth of Rika Lesser is recorded on 21 July 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek records New Haven, Connecticut., New York, NY and Göteborg as places of activity.
Life
Life
Lesser earned her bachelor's degree at Yale University in 1974. She studied at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden from 1974 to 1975 and received her MFA from Columbia University in 1977. She has produced four collections of her own poetry, including Etruscan Things (1983), and her prose translations include A Living Soul by P. C. Jersild and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.
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* • Hansel and Gretel (1984) (Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky) * * *
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1953
Rika Lesser born at Brooklyn.
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In 1982, she was awarded the Landon Poetry Translation Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and received the Poetry Translation Prize of the Swedish Academy in 1996 and in 2003.
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- 1.Routledge. International Who's Who in Poetry 2005. 930–931. 2004. 978-1857432695.
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Rika Lesser is recorded as having received Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
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