Peter Filkins

Peter Filkins (born January 7, 1958 in Dalton, Massachusetts , United States ) is an American poet , translator , literary critic , essayist and Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Life

Filkins is a graduate of Williams College , Williamstown , (BA) and Columbia University , New York, (MFA). From 1983 to 1984 he lived in Vienna on a Fulbright scholarship. Since 1988 he has taught writing and translation, since 2006 20th century literature, German literature and translation at Bard College. As a poet, Filkins has published 7 volumes and as a translator from German into American English works by Ingeborg Bachmann , HG Adler ( Hans Günther Adler ), Alois Hotschnig and Bernd Stiegler. In 2005 he was a laureate of the American Academy and in 2011 a DAAD scholarship in Berlin and in 2012 a scholarship from the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar. He is recognized for his work as a poet and translator and lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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poetry

• 1998: What She Knew. Orchises Press, ISBN 978-0-914061-66-3 .
• 2002: After Homer. George Braziller, ISBN 978-0807615058 .
• 2010: Augustine's vision. New American Press, ISBN 978-0-9817802-9-0 .
• 2012: The View We're Granted. Johns Hopkins, ISBN 978-1421406329 .
• 2016: To The Eminent Hate Mongers. University of Massachusetts

Translations

• 1994: Ingeborg Bachmann, Songs in Flight: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann. Marsilio Pub. ISBN 978-1-56886-009-1
• 1999: Ingeborg Bachmann, The Book of Franza & Requiem for Fanny Goldmann. Northwestern University Press, ISBN 978-0-8101-1204-9
• 1999: Alois Hotschnig, Leonardo's Hands. University of Nebraska Press, ISBN 978-0-8032-2387-5 .
• 2006: Ingeborg Bachmann, Darkness Spoken. Zephyr Press, ISBN 978-0-939010-84-4
• 2008: HG Adler, The Journey. Random House 2008, ISBN 978-1-4000-6673-5
• 2011: HG Adler, Panorama. Random House, ISBN 978-1-4000-6851-7
• 2013: Bernd Stiegler, Traveling in Place. University of Chicago Press, ISBN 978-0-226-77467-1
• 2014: HG Adler, The Wall. Random House, ISBN 978-0-8129-9306-6

editor

• HG Adler, After Liberation: Selected Essays on History and Sociology. Ed. And with an afterword by Peter Filkins. Konstanz University Press, Paderborn 2013, ISBN 978-3-86253-041-0 .
• HG Adler, Orthodoxy of the Heart, Selected Essays on Literature, Judaism and Politics. Ed. And with an afterword by Peter Filkins. Konstanz University Press, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-86253-055-7

author

• HG Adler, A Life in many Worlds, Oxford University Press, New York 2019, ISBN 9780190222383

Awards

• 2015–2016 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship.
• 2014–2015 Fellowship, Leon Levy Center for Biography, CUNY Graduate Center.
• 2012, 2007, 2002, 1997 Fellowships to The MacDowell Colony.
• 2013 Co-winner, Sheila Motton Best Book Award for The View We're Granted, New England Poetry Club.
• 2012 Writer-in-Residence, James Merrill House, Stonington, CT.
• 2012 Marbach Fellowship, German Literature Archive, Marbach, Germany.
• 2011 DAAD Faculty Research Fellowship.
• 2009 New American Press Chapbook Award for Augustine's Vision.
• 2007 Stover Prize in Poetry, Southwest Review.
• 2007 Distinguished Translation Award for Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, Austrian Cultural Ministry.
• 2005 Berlin Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin.
• 1998 Finalist Award in Poetry, Massachusetts Cultural Council.
• 1995 Outstanding Translation Award for Songs in Flight: The Collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, American Literary Translators Association.
• 1993 Fellowship to Millay Colony of the Arts.
• 1989 Fellowship to Yaddo Artists Colony.
• 1983–1984 Fulbright Grant to Vienna, Austria

Web links

• https://peterfilkins.com/about/
• https://www.newcriterion.com/author-content/articles/310
• http://observer.com/author/peter-filkins/

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Filkins: Peter Filkins. In: Peter Filkins. Peter Filkins, 2019, accessed on February 16, 2019 (English, German). 
2. ^ Peter Filkins: Review of Lenz. Los Angeles Times, April 30, 2013, accessed June 19, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Peter Filkins. Bard College, accessed June 19, 2017 . 
4. ^ Bard College: Peter Filkins. Bard College, accessed January 27, 2018 . 
5. ^ Division of Languages ​​and Literature: Peter Filkins. Bard College, accessed January 27, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Peter Filkins. american academy, 2005, accessed June 19, 2017 . 
7. ↑ Peter Filkins. New York Institute of Humanities, accessed June 19, 2017 . 
8. ^ Peter Filkins: The Rural We: Peter Filkins. Rural intelligence, November 1, 2015, accessed June 19, 2017 . 
9. ↑ Peter Filkins: Augustine's Vision. lyrikline listen to the poet !, accessed on June 19, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Villa Ichon: ›Writing History, Writing Biography - The Many Worlds of HG Adler‹. In: Villa Ichon. Villa Ichon, May 8, 2019, accessed on July 24, 2019 (German). 
11. ↑ René Schlott: Survival in order to write. Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 26, 2020, accessed on April 27, 2020 (German).