For his translations of Cesare Pavese. Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950 (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon, 2002) collects all of Pavese’s poems from 1930 until his death in 1950. Poet Rosanna Warren noted that these are “poems that have the density, the grit, the obdurate presentness hewn from silence for which Pavese fought so hard in […]
Jointly awarded, with Afkham Darband, for their translation of Farid-Ud-Din Attar’s classic text, The Conference of the Birds.
Jointly awarded, with Dick Davis, for their translation of Farid-Ud-Din Attar’s classic text, The Conference of the Birds.
For the translation of Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, by Steven Millhauser.
Project on the prevention of blindness in aboriginal communities. At the time, Kaplan-Myrth was at Yale University.
Project on the social impact of Australia’s Aboriginal Cultural Centers. At the time, Thorner was at Georgetown University.
Project: a historically-based novel weaving threads from medicine and public heath, institutional architecture and women’s healthcare. At the time, Chapman was at Syracuse University.
Project on the challenge to Finnish national identity posed by globalization. At the time, Matza, a recent Princeton University graduate, was developing a career as a journalist.
Project on the thirty-year Scandinavian career of Earle Hyman, distinguished black American actor who learned Norwegian, Swedish and Danish and performed the classical repertory, from Ibsen to Strindberg and Shakespeare to O’Neill, before his American career began. At the time, Kelly was in the Theater Department at the University of Wisconsin.
Project on the response of theology and religion to recent social change. At the time, geographer Rudberg was at Dartmouth College.
Project on the shift in the daily experience of time and space brought about by the use of mobile phones. At the time, Zafiroglu was at Brown University.
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In recognition of her excellence in carrying out the merging of the US Information Service into the State Department her USIA-State merger and training State officers to take over the simple grant-making activities formerly carried out by USIA.