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John Felstinerfrom Correspondance (1951-1970) de Paul Celan et Gisèle Celan-Lestrange |
National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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![]() John Felstiner was awarded his second Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2002 to translate the letters of poet Paul Celan and his wife, French artist Gisúle Celan-Lestrange. Written between 1951 and 1970, when Celan committed suicide, the more than 600 letters explore critical aesthetic questions and include first drafts of renowned poems. Mr. Felstiner received his first NEA fellowship in 1984 for the translation of Celan's poetry. He has also received two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. His books include Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu, which won the California Commonwealth Club Gold Medal for Non-fiction, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew, which won the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Criticism, and Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan, which won translation prizes from the American Translators Association, Modern Language Association, and PEN West. He has taught at the University of Chile, Yale University, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and is currently a professor of English at Stanford University. Please see, "A Conversation With Translator John Felstiner," an interview conducted in April 2002.
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