Clarice Lispector: The Stylistics of Love
Alexis Levitin
Wednesday, 10 Mar 2004 at 8:00 pm – Gallery, Memorial Union
Alexis Levitin has translated two of Clarice Lispector's books, A Via Crucis do Corpo and Onde Estivestes de Noite which appeared under the title Soulstorm. Alexis Levitin has published 20 books of translations and his work has appeared in over 30 anthologies. in close to 200 literary magazines. This year he won a second NEA Translation Fellowship to work on the poems of two contemporary Portuguese poets, Herberto Helder and Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. His most recent book is Forbidden Words: The Selected Poetry of Eugenio de Andrade. He has also received grants, awards, and prizes from the New York State Council on the Arts, Columbia University Translation Center, Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, Wheatland Foundation and, in Portugal, the Gulbenkian Foundation, the Cam�es Institute, and the Book Institute. He was also awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency.
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