Nikolai B. Popov
Encyclopedia
Nikolai Boris Popov is a Bulgarian translator.
, with a Ph.D., in 1994.
In 2001, he participated at a conference at University of Iowa
International Writing Program.
He teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington
. A James Joyce
scholar and translator, he co-translated with Heather McHugh
a collection of the poems of Blaga Dimitrova
, and Paul Celan
.
He is married to poet Heather McHugh
.
Life
He graduated from University of WashingtonUniversity of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
, with a Ph.D., in 1994.
In 2001, he participated at a conference at University of Iowa
University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
International Writing Program.
He teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington
University of Washington
University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...
. A James Joyce
James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century...
scholar and translator, he co-translated with Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh
-Life:Heather McHugh, a poet, translator, and educator, was born in San Diego, California, to Canadian parents, John Laurence, a marine biologist, and Eileen Francesca . They raised McHugh in Gloucester Point, Virginia. There, her father directed the marine biological laboratory on the York River...
a collection of the poems of Blaga Dimitrova
Blaga Dimitrova
Blaga Nikolova Dimitrova was a Bulgarian poetess and Vice President of Bulgaria from 1992 until 1993.-Life:...
, and Paul Celan
Paul Celan
Paul Celan was a poet and translator...
.
He is married to poet Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh
-Life:Heather McHugh, a poet, translator, and educator, was born in San Diego, California, to Canadian parents, John Laurence, a marine biologist, and Eileen Francesca . They raised McHugh in Gloucester Point, Virginia. There, her father directed the marine biological laboratory on the York River...
.
Reviews
In Glottal Stop, however, in the words of the Griffin Poetry Prize Citation, “Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov have achieved the seemingly impossible: more than translating Celan into English, they have found a way to translate English into Celan.” The solutions that Popov-McHugh find to the problems set by Celan are “dazzlingly creative” (J.M. Coetzee, New York Review of Books). They have “the bold music and expressionistic syntax that Celan’s unique voice demands. The compounds and stretches and sound-tangles bring a startling poetic life to English” (Robert Pinksy).