Rika Lesser

American translator
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroAmerican translator
PlacesUnited States of America
isLinguist Translator Poet Writer
Work fieldLiterature Social science
Gender
Female
Birth21 July 1953, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Age71 years
Star signCancer
The details

Biography

Rika Lesser (born 1953 Brooklyn, New York) is a U.S. poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works.

Life

Lesser earned her bachelor's degree at Yale University in 1974. She studied at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden from 1974 to 1975 and received her MFA from Columbia University in 1977. She has produced three collections of her own poetry, including Etruscan Things (1983), and her prose translations include A Living Soul by P. C. Jersild and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.

Awards

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.

Works

Poetry

Translations

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