Nikolai B. Popov

For the chief designer of the T-80 tank, see Nikolay Popov. For translator, born 1938 in Saratov, Russia, see Nikolai Popov.

Nikolai Boris Popov (born 1952) is a Bulgarian translator.

Life

He graduated from University of Washington, with a Ph.D., in 1994. In 2001, he participated at a conference at University of Iowa International Writing Program.^[1] He teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington.^[2] A James Joyce scholar and translator, he co-translated with Heather McHugh a collection of the poems of Blaga Dimitrova,^[3] and Paul Celan.

He is married to poet Heather McHugh.^[4]

Awards

• 2001 Griffin Poetry Prize

Translations

• Paul Celan (February 25, 2004). Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan. Wesleyan Poetry. ISBN 9780819567208. 

Reviews

In Glottal Stop, however, in the words of the Griffin Poetry Prize Citation, “Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov have achieved the seemingly impossible: more than translating Celan into English, they have found a way to translate English into Celan.” The solutions that Popov-McHugh find to the problems set by Celan are “dazzlingly creative” (J.M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books). They have “the bold music and expressionistic syntax that Celan’s unique voice demands. The compounds and stretches and sound-tangles bring a startling poetic life to English” (Robert Pinksy).^[5]

References

1. ^ http://iwp.uiowa.edu/about/annualreports/2001AnnualReport.pdf
2. ^ http://depts.washington.edu/engl/people/profile.php?id=517
3. ^ http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2001.php?t=7
4. ^ David Lehman, ed (1996). Ecstatic occasions, expedient forms: 85 leading contemporary poets select and comment on their poems. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 9780472066339. http://books.google.com/books?id=fROB7kx_fAsC&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=Niko+Boris+heather+mchugh&source=bl&ots=N_j0BiIH4N&sig=z8LtRzLSpAJTDH8ZqGbtgRDzmxY&hl=en&ei=BxkDS__RHNPUnge_6plr&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CAsQ6AEwATge#v=onepage&q=Niko%20Boris%20heather%20mchugh&f=false. 
5. ^ http://www2.ucsc.edu/mags/html/events/celan.html

External links

• Nikolai Popov, Harper's Magazine
• Translators Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov read from Glottal Stop: 101 Poems, poems of Paul Celan
• Griffin Poetry Prize biography
• Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip

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