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Peter Cole wins MacArthur fellowship
October 22, 2007
source: MacArthur Fellows 2007
Translator Peter Cole, whose work has appeared on Poetry International Web, has won a prestigious MacArthur fellowship worth half a million dollars. The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes nicknamed the “genius grant”) is an award given by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation each year to a few lucky U.S. citizens or residents, of any age and working in any field, who show “exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work”.
Peter Cole is a translator, publisher, and poet who brings the often overlooked works of medieval Spain and the modern Middle East to English-speaking audiences. His highly regarded translations of the poetry of Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Shmuel HaNagid, two of the great Hebrew poets of the Andalusian “Golden Age,” offer readers a lyrical illustration of the extraordinary Arab-Jewish cultural partnership that flourished in tenth- through twelfth-century Spain. A poet himself, Cole’s translations infuse medieval verse with contemporary meaning while remaining faithful to the original text. source: MacArthur Fellows 2007
Source: Lisa Katz, by email, 22nd October, 2007
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