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Edmund Keeley


Born
in Damascus, State of Syria
February 05, 1928

Died
February 23, 2022


Edmund Keeley was an American novelist, translator, poet, and essayist, as well as a longtime professor of English at Princeton University. Renowned for his expertise in modern Greek literature, he translated and promoted the works of C. P. Cavafy, George Seferis, Odysseas Elytis, and Yannis Ritsos. His extensive body of work spans fiction, poetry, and scholarship, often inspired by Greece and its culture. He served as president of both the Modern Greek Studies Association and PEN American Center, and received numerous awards and honors, including the Rome Prize, Guggenheim Fellowships, and the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation. ...more

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Inventing Paradise: The Gre...

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Cavafy's Alexandria

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Voices of Modern Greece

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School for Pagan Lovers

3.65 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions
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A Wilderness Called Peace

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An Albanian Journal (Terra ...

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Borderlines: A Memoir

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Nakedness Is My End: Poems ...

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On Translation: Reflections...

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Modern Greek Writers: Solom...

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