Nikolai B. Popov

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Nikolai Boris Popov (Bulgarian: Николай Борис Попов) (born 1952) is a translator.

Nikolai Boris Popov
Born	1952 (age 71–72)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Washington

Life

Popove graduated from University of Washington, with a Ph.D., in 1994. In 2001, he participated at a conference at University of Iowa International Writing Program.^[1] He teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington.^[2] A James Joyce scholar and translator, he co-translated with Heather McHugh a collection of the poems of Blaga Dimitrova,^[3] and Paul Celan. On May 13, 2012, he fell into a crevasse while skiing near Whistler but was unscathed.^[4]

From 1987 to 2010 he was married to poet Heather McHugh.^[5]

Awards

• 2001 Griffin Poetry Prize

Translations

• Paul Celan (February 25, 2004). Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan. Translated by Nikolai Popov; Heather McHugh. Wesleyan Poetry. ISBN 978-0-8195-6720-8.

References

1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-01-19. Retrieved 2009-11-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. "Nikolai Popov". depts.washington.edu. Archived from the original on 2004-02-25.
3. "The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry: Shortlist 2001 - Nikolai Popov and Heather McHugh". Archived from the original on 2008-09-29. Retrieved 2009-11-17.
4. "Seattle skier falls 160 feet into Canadian crevasse, rescued unscathed". Christian Science Monitor. 2012-05-14. ISSN 0882-7729. Retrieved 2021-07-22.
5. David Lehman, ed. (1996). Ecstatic occasions, expedient forms: 85 leading contemporary poets select and comment on their poems. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06633-9.

External links

• Nikolai Popov, Harper's Magazine
• Translators Heather McHugh and Nikolai Popov read from Glottal Stop: 101 Poems, poems of Paul Celan on YouTube
• Griffin Poetry Prize biography
• Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including video clip