Peter Filkins

Peter Filkins has published five books of poetry and has also translated Ingeborg Bachmann’s The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann. He is the recipient of an Outstanding Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association, a Berlin Prize from the American Academy in Berlin, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Leon Levy Center for Biography Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches courses in translation at Bard College and serves as the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.