Peter Bien

Peter Adolph Bien (born May 28, 1930 in New York , New York ) is an American English and neo-Greekist and professor emeritus in the Department of English at Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire , USA .

Bien initially at Haverford College , a musical studies with the BA complete before at Columbia University in New York English Studies and Comparative Literature studied and there 1961 Ph.D. received his doctorate.

As an Anglicist, Bien works mainly on modern British prose, as a Neo-Greekist on the Greek language and Greek literature of the 20th century, especially on Nikos Kazantzakis and poets like Giannis Ritsos and Konstantinos Kavafis . He has also emerged as a translator of Kazantzakis and Stratis Myrivilis into English.

Fonts (selection)

Books

(Eds., With Karen Van Dyck , Peter Constantine , Edmund Keeley ): A Century of Greek Poetry: 1900–2000 (River Vale, NJ: Cosmos, 2004) - bilingual edition
(with Dimitri Gondicas, John Rassias, Andromache Karanika, Chrysanthi Yiannakou-Bien): Greek Today . Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2004.
Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Greek translation: Panepistimiakes ekdoseis Kritis 2001.
Three Generations of Greek Writers: Introductions to Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Ritsos . Athens: Efstathiadis, 1983.
Αντίθεσις και σύνθεσις στην ποίηση του Γιάννη Ρίτσου . Athens: Kedros, 1980. ("Antithesis and synthesis in the poetry of Giannis Ritsos")

Translations

Stratis Myrivilis: Life in the Tomb . Translated by Peter Bien. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 1977. River Vale, NJ: Cosmos Publications, 2004.
Nikos Kazantzakis: The Last Temptation of Christ. Translated by Peter Bien. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

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personal data
SURNAME	Bien, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bien, Peter Adolph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American English and Neo-Greek
DATE OF BIRTH	May 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	new York