Poetry From the March 2010 issue: Correspondences in the Air: International Poetry

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Nikos ViolarisNikos Violaris

Nikos Violaris was born in Athens in 1985.  He is studying at Athens University in the Department of History and Archaeology.  Two books of his poetry have been published by Gavrielides Publications, and poems of his, translated by Yiannis Goumas, have appeared in the bilingual Greek and English anthology Novelty Within or Beyond Language, (Athens, 2009).  Violaris’ poetry has appeared in various literary magazines and been translated into a number of languages.

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Translated from GreekGreek by Peter ConstantinePeter Constantine

Peter Constantine’s most recent translations are Self’s Murder, by Bernhard Schlink (Vintage Books, 2009), Sophocles’s Three Theban Plays (Barnes & Noble Classics, 2008) and The Essential Writings of Machiavelli (Modern Library, 2007). He was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Six Early Stories, by Thomas Mann, and the National Translation Award for The Undiscovered Chekhov. His translation of the complete works of Isaac Babel received the Koret Jewish Literature Award and a National Jewish Book Award citation. He has recently translated Within Four Walls: The Correspondence between Hannah Arendt and Heinrich Blücher, 1936-1968 for Harcourt, and Gogol's Taras Bulba, Tolstoy's The Cossacks, and Voltaire's Candide for Modern Library. He was one of the editors for A Century of Greek Poetry: 1900-2000 and The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (W.W. Norton, 2010).  He is currently working on a translation of The Essential Writings of Rousseau for The Modern Library. He is the recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship for his translation of Emmanuel Roidis.

Photograph by Erick Paiva Nouchi

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