Edmund Keeley

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Fiction Writer, Poet

Princeton, NJ

New Jersey US

Email:

keeley@princeton.edu

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Books:

The Making of Gatsby’s Dream (University of South Carolina Press, 2008)

Borderlines: A Memoir (White Pine Press, 2005)

Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey, 1937-47 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999)

Albanian Journal: The Road to Elbasan (White Pine Press, 1997)

George Seferis and Edmund Keeley: Correspondence, 1951-1971 (Princeton University Library , 1997)

The Salonika Bay Murder: Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair (Princeton University Press, 1989)

Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth (Princeton University Press, 1983)

A Conversation with Seferis, bilingual edition (Agras, 1982)

Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress (Harvard University Press, 1976)

Modern Greek Writers (Princeton University Press, 1972)

Journals:

Hudson Review

New York Review of Books

Fiction

Books:

The Megabuilders of Queenston Park (Wild River Books, 2014)

Some Wine for Remembrance (White Pine Press, 2001)

School for Pagan Lovers (Rutgers University Press, 1993)

A Wilderness Called Peace (Simon & Schuster, 1985)

Voyage to a Dark Island (Curtis Publishing, 1972)

The Impostor (Doubleday, 1970)

The Gold-Hatted Lover (Little, Brown & Co., 1961)

The Libation (Scribner, 1958)

Journals:

Antaeus

Harvard Review

International Quarterly

Mediterranean Review

Ontario Review

Ploughshares

Seattle Review

The New Yorker

TriQuarterly

Yale Review

Poetry

Books:

Yannis Ritsos: Diaries of Exile (Archipelago Books, Inc., 2013)

The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (W. W. Norton & Company, 2009)

A Century of Greek Poetry, 1900-2000 (Cosmos Publishing Co., 2004)

Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses (Princeton University Press, 1991)

Yannis Ritsos: Exile and Return, Selected Poems 1967-74 (Ecco Press, 1985)

Yannis Ritsos: Return and Other Poems, 1967-72 (University of Alabama Press, 1983)

Odysseus Elytis: Selected Poems (Viking/Penguin, 1981)

Voices of Modern Greece (Princeton University Press, 1981)

Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems (Princeton University Press, 1979)

Ritsos in Parentheses (Princeton University Press, 1979)

C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems (Princeton University Press, 1975)

Odysseus Elytis: The Axion Esti (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1974)

C. P. Cavafy: Selected Poems (Princeton University Press, 1972)

C. P. Cavafy: Passions and Ancient Days (Dial Press, 1971)

George Seferis: Collected Poems (Princeton University Press, 1967)

Vassilis Vassilikos: The Plant, The Well, The Angel (Alfred A. Knopf, 1964)

Six Poets of Modern Greece (Alfred A. Knopf, 1961)

Prizes won:

Rome Prize, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1959; Guggenheim Fellow, 1959-60, 1973; National Book Award in Translation Finalist, 1973; Ingram Merrill Foundation grant, 1977-78, 1982; National Endowment for the Humanities grant (translation), 1977-78; National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, 1981-82; Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, Academy of American Poets, 1980; The Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in Humanities, 1982; First European Prize for the Translation of Poetry, 1987; National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation, 1988; Academy Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1999; PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, PEN American Center, 2000; Criticos Prize, London Hellenic Society, 2000; Commander of the Order of the Phoenix, Greece, July 2001; Phidippides Award, Hellenic Public Radio-Cosmos FM, 2004; Dido Sotiriou Cultural Prize of the Hellenic Author’s Society, 2008; Ambassador of Hellenism Award, Nomarchy of Attica, Greece, 2010; PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, 2014 (with Karen Emmerich)

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

White

Prefers to work with:

Adults

Fluent in:

English

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Last update: Aug 06, 2018