Richard Zenith

Richard Zenith (born February 23, 1956 Washington, D.C.) is an American writer and translator.

Life

He graduated from the University of Virginia, 1979.^[1]

Awards

• 1987 Guggenheim Fellowship^[2]
• 2006 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Works

Translations

• Fernando Pessoa (2002). The book of disquiet. Translator Richard Zenith. Penguin Classics. ISBN 9780141183046. http://books.google.com/books?id=PbxzuKOzEJcC&dq=Richard+Zenith&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=-fJsjaKCab&sig=6RTqNuVXN6oZ0804w2ZaBCnTuQU&hl=en&ei=LhlASoy_L8-wlAeSrfG8Dg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6.  (Carcanet 1991 edition)
• Fernando Pessoa (1999). Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems. Translator Richard Zenith. Grove Press. ISBN 9780802136275. http://books.google.com/books?id=w7_O5QmBb7YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Richard+Zenith. 
• Fernando Pessoa (2002). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa. Translator Richard Zenith. Grove Press. ISBN 9780802139146. http://books.google.com/books?id=RQgrF4jkuboC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Richard+Zenith. 

• Antonio Lobo Antunes (2001). The Natural Order of Things. Translator Richard Zenith. Grove Press. ISBN 9780802138132. http://books.google.com/books?id=WMZDJfOUCXQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Richard+Zenith. 
• Antonio Lobo Antunes (2004). The Inquisitors' Manual. Translator Richard Zenith. Grove Press. ISBN 9780802140524. http://books.google.com/books?id=HQp6Do-YfGAC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Richard+Zenith. 
• Antonio Lobo Antunes (1996). Act of the Damned. Translator Richard Zenith. Grove Press. ISBN 9780802134769. http://books.google.com/books?id=khH0qGjptMsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Richard+Zenith. 

• José Luís Peixoto (2008). The Implacable Order of Things. Translator Richard Zenith. Random House, Inc. ISBN 9780385524469. http://books.google.com/books?id=iAbo3ZWB_a0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Richard+Zenith. 
• Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (1995). 113 Galician-Portuguese troubadour poems. Translator Richard Zenith. Carcanet. ISBN 9781857542073. 
• João Cabral de Melo Neto (2005). Education by stone: selected poems. Translator Richard Zenith. Archipelago Books. ISBN 9780974968018. http://books.google.com/books?id=xCyhb2yhcZYC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Richard+Zenith. 
• Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen (1997). Log Book: Selected Poems. Translator Richard Zenith. Carcanet. ISBN 9781857543643. 
• Fernando Pessoa (2005). The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript of the Baron of Teive. Translator Richard Zenith. D.A.P. ISBN 9781878972408. 
• Antero de Quental (1998). The Feeling of Immortality: Selected Writings. Translator Richard Zenith. Mermaid Turbulence. ISBN 9781901776058. 
• Nuno Judice (1997). Meditation on Ruins. Translator Richard Zenith. Archangel. ISBN 9788090180086. 

Reviews

As a result, there can be no definitive edition of The Book of Disquiet. Written on and off over a period of more than 20 years, seemingly beginning as a book by another of Pessoa's heteronyms, Vicente Guedes, and slowly evolving into the imaginary testament of Soares, it is a dishevelled album of thoughts, sensations and imagined memories that can never be fully deciphered. Any version is bound to be a construction. In his notes on the text, Richard Zenith recognises this and suggests that readers "invent their own order or, better yet, read the work's many parts in absolutely random order". Despite this disclaimer, readers of Zenith's edition will find it supersedes all others in its delicacy of style, rigorous scholarship and sympathy for Pessoa's fractured sensibility.^[3]

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