FACULTY AWARD: Emmerich, Keeley receive PEN Award

By Staff on Aug. 1, 2014, 9:11 a.m.

The 2014 PEN Award for poetry in translation for "Diaries of Exile" by Yannis Ritsos (Archipelago) has been awarded to Karen Emmerich, a 2000 Princeton alumna who majored in comparative literature, earned certificates in Hellenic Studies and creative writing, was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Program in Hellenic Studies in 2010-11 and will join Princeton University as an assistant professor in comparative literature in February 2015, and Edmund Keeley, the Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, Emeritus, and professor of English and creative writing, emeritus. The award, which is accompanied by a $3,000 prize conferred in New York, recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English published during the current calendar year.

Related Stories

Edmund Keeley, ‘the gold standard in translators of modern Greek poetry’ and ‘unwavering’ advocate of the humanities at Princeton, dies at 94 .

Edmund “Mike” Keeley, the inaugural Charles Barnwell Straut Class of 1923 Professor of English, Emeritus, and professor of creative writing, emeritus, poet and renowned translator of modern Greek poetry, died peacefully at home in Princeton on Feb. 23. He was 94.

Yiyun Li receives PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for originality, merit and impact .

Yiyun Li, professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, has received the 2020 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award for her novel "Where Reasons End."

Readings celebrate 70 years of creative writing at Princeton .

Distinguished writers affiliated with Princeton's internationally renowned Program in Creative Writing will be featured in a reading series celebrating the 70th anniversary of creative writing at the University this year. Maxine Kumin and Joyce Carol Oates will lead off the readings by current and former faculty, alumni, fellows and students in the program at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 21, in the Stewart Film Theater at the Lewis Center for the Arts, 185 Nassau St.

Robert Fagles, celebrated translator of ancient epics, dies at age 74 .

Robert Fagles, renowned translator of Greek classics, died March 26 in Princeton of prostate cancer. He was 74. Fagles, the Arthur Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus at Princeton University, was widely acclaimed for his popular translations of Homer's "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," both of which became best-sellers.

Samuel Hynes, ‘highly respected scholar-critic’ of British literature and World War II veteran, dies at 95 .

Samuel Hynes, the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature, Emeritus, and professor of English, emeritus, died at home in Princeton on Oct. 10. He was 95.

Ralph Freedman, literary theorist and 'genuine mentor,' dies at 96 .

Ralph Freedman, professor of comparative literature, emeritus, at Princeton University, died May 5 of natural causes at his home in Decatur, Georgia. He was 96.

Renowned Princeton writers join together to teach one class .

In her first semester at Princeton, freshman Megan Leahy had some of the biggest names in literature on the Princeton faculty as her instructors — acclaimed novelists Jeffrey Eugenides, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates and Edmund White, not to mention world-renowned poets Paul Muldoon and C.K. Williams. And that was just in one class. Leahy is taking "Princeton University Reads," a new course in the English department that offers students the one-of-a-kind experience to hear some of the University's best-known poets and novelists talk about their work.