Literary Library

Hiroshi Kashiwagi

by Angela Beck
November 8, 1922 - October 29, 2019American poet, playwright, actor, translator and librarianAuthor of "The Plums Can Wait", "Voices from Japanese ...
Actor Drama Dramatist Librarian National Book Award Plays Playwright Poem Poet Poetry Theater Theatre Translator

Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg

by Angela Beck
November 7, 1750 - December 5, 1819German poet, lawyer, translator and dramatistAuthor of "Timoleon", "Alfred the Great" and "Kurze Abfertigung de...
Drama Dramatist German Germany Plays Playwright Poem Poet Poetry Theater Theatre Translator

C. K. Williams

by Angela Beck
November 4, 1936 - September 20, 2015American poet, critic and translatorAuthor of "Flesh and Blood" (for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer...
Critic Poem Poet Poetry Pulitzer Prize Translator

Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak

by Angela Beck
November 3, 1887 - July 4, 1964Russian-Jewish translator and poetAuthor of "Silly Little Mouse and Other Poems", "The Pup Grows Up" and "The Absen...
Jewish Jews Russia Russian Translator

Georg Philipp Harsdorffer

by Angela Beck
November 1, 1607 - September 17, 1658German poet and translatorAuthor of more than 47 volumes of poetry and prose including "Frauenzimmer Gesprech...
German Germany Poem Poet Poetry Translator

C. K. Williams

by Angela Beck
November 4, 1936 - September 20, 2015American poet, critic and translatorAuthor of "Flesh and Blood" (for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer...
Critic Poem Poet Poetry Pulitzer Prize Translator