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Bill Johnston

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Bill Johnston

Bill Johnston received the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry for his rendering of Adam Mickiewicz’s epic narrative poem in rhyming couplets, Pan Tadeusz (Archipelago Books, 2018). He has translated more than forty books from Polish and French, including work by Wiesław Myśliwski, Witold Gombrowicz, Stanisław Lem, Jean Giono, and Jeanne Benameur....

His other awards include the Best Translated Book Award, the PEN Translation Prize, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches literary translation at Indiana University.

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