Rika Lesser

Rika Lesser (born 1953 Brooklyn, New York) is a U.S. poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works.

Life

Lesser has produced three collections of her own poetry, including Etruscan Things (1983), and her prose translations include A Living Soul by P. C. Jersild and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.

Awards

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 and in 2003.

Works

Poetry

• Growing back: poems, 1972-1992. University of South Carolina Press. 1997. ISBN 9781570032332. http://books.google.com/books?id=ESVoAbuM5BwC&pg=PP1&dq=Rika+Lesser&lr=. 
• All we need of hell: poems. University of North Texas Press. 1995. ISBN 9780929398921. http://books.google.com/books?id=WXNVKNssPYQC&pg=PP1&dq=Rika+Lesser&lr=. 
• Etruscan things: poems. G. Braziller. 1983. ISBN 9780807610589. 

Translations

• Rainer Maria Rilke (1986). Between Roots-selected Poems Rendered from German. Translator Rika Lesser. s.n.. 
• Gunnar Ekelöf (1980). Guide to the Underworld. Translator Rika Lesser. University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 9780870233067. 
• A Child Is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of Göran Sonnevi. Princeton University Press. 1993. ISBN 9780691015439. http://books.google.com/books?id=id9UnzqEye8C&pg=PP1&dq=Rika+Lesser&lr=. 
• Sigrid Heuck (1988). The Hideout / Sigrid Heuck. Translator Rika Lesser. Douglas & McIntyre, Limited. ISBN 9780888332660. 

References

• "Lesser, Rika". PEN American Center. http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/646/prmID/366. Retrieved 2007-11-11.