Roger Greenwald | |
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| Born | 1945 (age 78–79) |
| Nationality | USA |
| Known for | Translating Norwegian poetry |
Roger Greenwald (born 1945) is an American literature researcher, poet, and translator.
Roger Greenwald was born in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Arts from City College of New York and his PhD from the University of Toronto. He has worked among other places as a lecturer at Innis College, part of the University of Toronto. From 1969 until 1994, Greenwald led the Innis College Writers Workshops in poetry and fiction.[1][2]
Greenwald is especially known as a translator of Norwegian poetry, with a focus on Rolf Jacobsen. WRIT Magazine was founded in 1970 by Roger Greenwald as a English-language literary magazines in Canada that showed any interest in publishing translations. He won The American-Scandinavian Foundation's award for best translation of Scandinavian literature into English in 1990. He received the prize for his translation of the poetry of Tarjei Vesaas.[1] In 1993 he published his own poetry collection, Connecting Flights. In an interview with Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten in 1990, in connection with the award he received for translating Vesaas, Greenwald recollected that he began writing poetry at age 8 and was published when he was 15. By the time of the interview his own most notable publications had been in literary magazines.[1][3]
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