Rika Lesser

Rika Lesser

Rika Lesser is a U.S. poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1953, Lesser has produced three collections of her own poetry, including "Etruscan Things" (1983), and has translated the works of other poets, including the following:

"Between Roots" by Rainer Maria Rilke

"Guide to the Underworld" by Gunnar Ekelöf

"A Child Is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of Göran Sonnevi"

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. Her prose translations include "A Living Soul" by P. C. Jersild.

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