Rika Lesser

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Rika Lesser is a U.S. poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works.

Lesser has produced three collections of her own poetry and has translated the works of other poets, including the following:

Guide to the Underworld by Gunnar Ekelöf

A Child Is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of Göran Sonnevi

In 1982, she was awarded the Landon Poetry Translation Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and received the Poetry Translation Prize of the Swedish Academy in 1996.

Her prose translations include A Living Soul by P. C. Jersild.