- Edmund Keeley
Infobox Writer
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name = Edmund Keeley
birthdate = 1928
birthplace =Damascus
occupation =Professor ,Writer ,Translator
nationality = flagicon|United StatesUnited States
genre =Fiction Nonfiction Translation Edmund Leroy Keeley (born
February 5 ,1928 inDamascus ,Syria ) is an author, translator, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor Emeritus of English atPrinceton University . He is a noted expert on Greek poetConstantine P. Cavafy .His father was the American diplomat
James Hugh Keeley . He spent his childhood inCanada ,Greece , andWashington, D. C. before earning his B.A. fromPrinceton University . In 1952 he received a Doctorate in Comparative Literature fromOxford University where he studied with a fellowship from theWoodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation .He served as president of
PEN American Center from 1992 to 1994.He retired from a long career at Princeton University in 1994.
AWARDS
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Rome Prize ,American Academy of Arts and Letters (1959)
*New Jersey Authors Award:* (1960) For the novel "The Libation" (Citation)
* (1968) For "George Seferis: Collected Poems, 1924-1955"
* (1970) For the novel "The Impostor"*Guinness Poetry Award selection, 1962
*National Book Award in Translation (finalist) 1973
*P.E.N.-Columbia University Translation Center Prize (1975)
*Harold Morton Laudon Translation Award, Academy of American Poets (1980)
*Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities (1982)
*PEN/National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Syndicate Award (1983)
*Pushcart Prize Selection (1984-85)
*First European Prize for Translation of Poetry (1987)
*National Translation Award (Citation) (1992)
*Honoray Doctorate,University of Athens (1994)
*Academy Award in Literature (1999)
*PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation (2000)
*Criticos Prize London Hellenic Society (2000)
*Commander of the Order of the Phoenix (2001)
*The Yale Review Prize (2003)
*Trustees’ Annual Award, Gennadius Library (2003)
*Phidippides Award (2004)
*Honorary Doctorate,Richard Stockton College 2006
*Dido Sotiriou Cultural Prize, Hellenic Authors' Society (2008)
*Lord Byron Award,Hellenic College , 2008BOOKS
* "The Libation" Charles Scribner's & Sons :1958
* "The Gold-hatted Lover" Little, Brown and Company:1961
* "The Imposter" Doubleday:1970
* "Voyage to a Dark Island" Curtis Books:1972
* "Problems in rendering Modern Greek":1975
* "Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress" Harvard University Press :1976
* "Ritsos in Parentheses" Princeton University Press:1979
* "A Wilderness Called Peace" Simon & Schuster:1985 - ISBN 0-6714-7416-2
* "The Salonika Bay Murder, Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair" Princeton University Press:1989
* "School for Pagan Lovers" Rutgers University Press:1993 - ISBN 0-8135-1935-7
* "Albanian Journal, the Road toElbasan " White Pine Press:1997 ISBN 1-8777-2776-8
* "On Translation: Reflections and Conversations" Harwood Academic Publishers:1998
* "Inventing Paradise. The Greek Journey, 1937-47" Farrar, Straus and Giroux:1999
* "Some Wine for Remembrance" White Pine Press:2002 ISBN - 1-8939-9615-8
* "Borderlines, A Memoir" White Pine Press:2005 ISBN – 1-893996-33-6EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR
* "Six Poets of Modern Greece" (With Philip Sherrard) Alfred A. Knopf :1961
* "Vassilis Vassilikos, 'The Plant,' 'The Well,' 'The Angel': A Trilogy" (With Mary Keeley) Knopf:1964.
* "Four Greek Poets" (With Philip Sherrard) Penguin Books:1965
* "George Seferis, Collected Poems: 1924-1955" (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press:1967 - ISBN 0-6910-1300-4
* "C. P. Cavafy, Passions and Ancient Days" (with George Savidis) Hogarth Press:1972 ISBN 0-7012-0351-X
* "Modern Greek Writers:Solomos ,Calvos ,Matesis ,Palamas ,Cavafy ,Kazantzakis ,Seferis ,Elytis " (WithPeter Bien ) Princeton University Press:1972
* "C. P. Cavafy, Selected Poems" (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press:1972
* "Odysseus Elytis, The Axion Esti" (with George Savidis) Pittsburgh University Press:1972
* "C. P. Cavafy, Three Poems of Passion" (with George Savidis) Plain Wrapper Press :1975
* "C. P. Cavafy, Collected Poems" (With Philip Sherrard and George Savidis) Princeton University Press:1975, revised edition, Princeton University Press, 1992. - ISBN 0-6910-1537-6
* "Angelos Sikelianos, Selected Poems" (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press:1979
* "Odysseus Elytis, Selected Poems" Viking-Penguin:1981 - ISBN 0-6702-9246-X
* "The Dark Crystal: An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry" (With Philip Sherrard) Denise Harvey & CO :1981
* "Voices of Modern Greece: Selected Poems of C.P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos" (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press:1981 - ISBN 0-6910-1382-9
* "Yannis Ritsos, Return and Other Poems" Parallel Editions:1983
* "C. P. Cavafy, A Selection of Poems" (With Philip Sherrard) Camberwell Press :1985
* "Yannis Ritsos, Exile and Return: Selected Poems, 1967-74" Ecco Press1985* "The Legacy of R.P. Blackmur: Essays, Memoirs, Texts" (with Edward T. Cone and Joseph Frank) Ecco Press:1987 - ISBN 0-8800-1152-1
* "Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses" Princeton University Press:1991 - ISBN 0-6910-1908-8
* "The Essential Cavafy" (With Philip Sherrard) Ecco Press:1995 - ISBN 0-6910-1491-4
* "George Seferis, Collected Poems," (With Philip Sherrard) Princeton University Press:1995
* "George Seferis and Edmund Keeley: Correspondence, 1951-1971" Princeton University Library:1997 - ISBN 0-87811-042-9
* "A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000: Bilingual Edition" (withPeter Bien ,Peter Constantine , andKaren Van Dyck ) Cosmos Publishing:2004 - ISBN 1-9324-5500-0
* "Selected Poems Of Odysseus Elytis" (with Philip Sherrard) Anvil Press:2007 - ISBN 0-8564-6355-8External links
* [http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/keeley/ Edmund Keeley Papers]
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