Willis Barnstone
1927
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country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Bowdoin College, Phillips Exeter Academy
occupation: poet, hispanist, translator
award received: Guggenheim Fellowship
Willis Barnstone (born November 13, 1927) is an American poet, religious scholar, and translator. He was born in Lewiston, Maine and lives in Oakland, California. He has translated works by Jorge Luis Borges, Antonio Machado, Rainer Maria Rilke, Pedro Salinas, Pablo Neruda, and Wang Wei, as well as the New Testament and fragments by Sappho and pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus (Ἡράκλειτος). Source: Wikipedia (en)
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