Peter Filkins is an American poet and literary translator. Filkins graduated from Williams College with a Bachelor of Arts and from Columbia University with a Master of Fine Arts degree. His poetry collections include the forthcoming Water / Music, as well as The View We’re Granted, co-winner of the 2013 Sheila Motton Best Book Award from the New England Poetry Club, and Augustine’s Vision, winner of the 2009 New American Press Chapbook Award. His poems, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in numerous journals, including The New Republic, Partisan Review, The New Criterion, Poetry, The Yale Review, the New York Times Book Review, and the Los Angeles Times. He is a recipient of a 2005 Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, a 2015-2016 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, a 2014 Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Austria. In 2012 he was writer-in-residence at the James Merrill House, and he has held residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.Wikipedia →
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Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann
Ich weiß keine bessere Welt by Ingeborg Bachmann
English · Zephyr Press · 2006
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Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann
Der Fall Franza - Requiem für Fanny Goldmann by Ingeborg Bachmann
English · Northwestern University Press · 2010
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The Book Against Death
Das Buch gegen den Tod by Elias Canetti
English · New Directions · 2024
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