Peter Constantine
Biographic Data
| ID | 990896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Constantine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Constantine |
| SIGNATURE | CONSTANTINE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Merit Network |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transnational Transmission
Uncovering Buried Historical Memory
Uncovering Buried Historical MemoryA Conversation with Grzegorz Kwiatkowski Grzegorz Kwiatkowski (bio) and Peter Constantine (bio) Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is a new and dynamic poetic voice from Poland, with six volumes of poetry and several translations on the way, as well as the vocalist of the psychedelic postpunk band Trupa Trupa. His newest collection, Crops, translated into English by Peter Constantine, was published by Rain Taxi in November 20…
Poetry (III)
Poetry (III) Eleni Kefala (bio) Translated by Peter Constantine (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Poetry is not solace, it is not a song of joy and of sadness, it is not a haven in the mouth of a blind man, it is not a museum. Poetry is not an almanac of meanings on the shelf with the classics, nor is it beauty that looms in a room with mirrors and half-burned logs. Poetry is not a sea, nor a shipwreck, nor terra firma, nor a map, …
Three Afrikaans Poems
POETRY Ilse van Staden is a writer, artist, and veterinarian. Though most of her published work (poetry, short stories, and a novel) is in her home language, Afrikaans, she has now also published two novels in English. Peter Constantine’s recent translations include works by Augustine, Rousseau, Machiavelli, and Tolstoy; he is a Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the PEN Translation Prize as well as a National Translation Award. He is professor of t…
My Virtual French Summer
After my Study Abroad program in Paris was cancelled due to COVID-19, I decided to travel to France in a different way: through a virtual literary lens. For several weeks throughout the summer of 2020, I scoured hundreds of Instagram accounts and scrolled through numerous online French literary magazines—Recours au poème, 17secondes, Revue la piscine, Levure littéraire, and Les Tas de mots—in an attempt to find a new generation of millennial poet…
Desegregating Language
Encountering postapartheid Afrikaans fiction for the first time, particularly the fast-paced crime novels of Deon Meyer, the author finds that the most unexpected element is the new lack of segregation between Afrikaans and English
Google Translate Gets Voltaire
In the fall of 2016, users of Google Translate working from French to English and English to French saw a marked improvement in the quality of the translated texts. Google Translate was beginning to develop from a purely phrase-based statistical machine translation system into a system that uses deep learning and artificial neural networks that can adapt and learn in reaction to all they encounter. The Google Translate development team has been w…
Greetings from Angelus
of language and culture. “Names of birds” never uses English names for them and ends with these intriguing lines: “Hamsa/ Soham / Repeat this / Until the bird / And its meanings / Are merged as One.” In Vedic literature, this combination of two words, So’ham and Hamsa, is interpreted as “I myself am the Swan,” the swan symbolizing the supreme state of being. In a poem addressed to another poet, Agha Shahid Ali, she asks, “Shahid, you said / never…
On the Perils of Translating Men in Power
This article explores the challenges and dangers of rendering and translating the language of powerful leaders who use fragmented and problematic grammatical constructs in their speeches
ΓΙΑΖΡΑ ΓΚΡΟΖΝΙ (Jazra Grozny)
aphoristic phrasing and terse imagery beckon transport to world literature’s territory and the community of transnational readers who presumably reside there: “I’m standing here to turn over my language. / Everything gets lighter when it crosses the border. / I’m standing here to be translated.” With Standing on Earth, translator Lyn Coffin has granted the poet passage, giving English readers their first view into the demarcated world as Emadi re…
Translating Full Throttle
Lawrence Venuti is a leading translator of modern Italian and Catalan literature and internationally one of the most influential theorists in the field of literary translation. In their recent interview, Peter Constantine asked him about his craft and theory of translation
The Young Literary Scene in Kosovo
34 WLT JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2016 luta : v . l . l . constantine : annette hornischer Peter Constantine: Kosovo’s international festival of literature in Orllan has over the last few years attracted a number of Kosovar writers and international literary figures. Do you see a new energy in the Kosovo literary scene? Ragip Luta: Yes, there is definitely new energy on the Kosovo literary scene, no doubt about it! Although it is a small scene, it is col…
Ancient Words, Modern Words
Anne Carson is one of the foremost poets in the English language and a translator from the Ancient Greek. In this interview she talks to Peter Constantine about her literary work and her approaches to classical culture
Reinventing Spanish as a Literary Language
The Mexican literary scene is in flux. A new generation of writers is responding to great political and social upheavals. Among these writers, the award-winning author and editor ́lvaro Enrigue is one of the most compelling and versatile. He is the author of four novels, two short-story collections, and a book of literary criticism; he has worked as an editor, doing much to promote the work of young indigenous Mexican authors writing in Mexican l…
Reinventing Spanish as a Literary Language
The Mexican literary scene is in flux. A new generation of writers is responding to great political and social upheavals. Among these writers, the award-winning author and editor ́lvaro Enrigue is one of the most compelling and versatile. He is the author of four novels, two short-story collections, and a book of literary criticism; he has worked as an editor, doing much to promote the work of young indigenous Mexican authors writing in Mexican l…
Deep in Thought
MW^M Romeo Çollaku (b. 1973, Sarandë, southern Albania) isa poet, prose writer, editor,and translator who has lived inAthenssince 1999. He has published three books of poetry, a novel,and a book ofshortstories, and has translateda wide range ofnineteenth -and twentieth-century European writers intoAlbanian and Modern Greek, among them Mallarmé,Verlaine,Claudel, and Rilke.He has received both the Albanian NationalAwardforTranslationand the Albania…
A Naïve Poem
MW^M Romeo Çollaku (b. 1973, Sarandë, southern Albania) isa poet, prose writer, editor,and translator who has lived inAthenssince 1999. He has published three books of poetry, a novel,and a book ofshortstories, and has translateda wide range ofnineteenth -and twentieth-century European writers intoAlbanian and Modern Greek, among them Mallarmé,Verlaine,Claudel, and Rilke.He has received both the Albanian NationalAwardforTranslationand the Albania…
Interview with Jazra Khaleed
To a Poltergeist in the Bedroom's Northward Wall
U < ë o I ^^^^^9 TheTheoryofLiterature Aninfinite number ofmonkeys with typewriters, itissaid, wouldultimately produce thecomplete works ofShakespeare. Andshortly thereafter theworks ofDante, then Joyce, Goethe, Kafka, Dickens, Dostoevsky. Then, after somemonths, a fewpersonal writings aboutthings suchas paws,trees, or perpetual repetition. Thena little Dostoevsky again followed by thewholeof Shakespeare all over from thebeginning, linebyline. An…
A Conversation with Translator Michael Emmerich
Michael Emmerich is one of very few American scholars of Japanese literature whose research and translating bridgesthe modernand premodern divide,coveringtheclassical early modern, modern, and contemporary periods. As an undergraduate at Princeton, he translated a collection ofstories and a play byKawabata, someofwhichwerepublished inConjunctionsand Fiction. The entirecollection was subsequently publishedas FirstSnow on Fuji (Counterpoint, 1999).…
A Conversation with Jazra Khaleed
INTERVIEW A Conversation with Jazra Khaleed Peter Constantine Jazra Khaleed, born inChechnya in 1979, lives today inAthens and writes exclusively inGreek. He is among thefirst of a new generation ofGreekwriterswho were bom beyond theborders ofGreece, with roots inother cultures and languages, bringing new ideas, directions, and rhythmstoGreek poetry. Khaleed isa poet and boxer from Athens' harsh innercity;hispoetry isan indictmentof everything th…
De Republyk by Hans van der Heijde
w w Z w Pi P H w H O O iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiii key femalemember ofETA who has gone into hiding and her ten- and thirteen-year-old son and daughter, abducted by their fatherand taken to live in Caracas, Venezuela. Hav ing only recently learned of their whereabouts after some seven years without any contact whatsoever with her children, she writes a series of detailed, personal memories of theirprior lifetogether ina rednote book, which she entrusts t…
Words
POETRY librarieshas been down by 30 percent during the same period. The local government and "professional" Frisians have launched all kinds of language initiatives. When a newborn baby is registered, for instance, parents are given a "language bag" containing information about the advantages of a bilingual upbringing. There are freemagazines promoting Frisian in child-rearing or with infor mation about books and writers. You can now learnFrisian…
The Scattered Papers of Penelope
B poet by thename ofMihyar,this ^^^^B collection's Mihyar is a persona ^^^^B adoptedbyAdonis (itself a pen ^^^^B name and persona, that of a Near ^^^^B Eastern harvest god). Adonis's ^^^^fl Mihyar embodies the revolutionary, ^^^^B the anarchic, themystical, and the ^^^^B esoteric.One critichas gone so faras ^^^^B to callMihyar a post-religious figure ^HH^I and has argued that in this collec ^BjH tionMihyar /Adonis is a prophet of ^HjjH the profan…
Der Turm
Ingo Schulze. Adam und Evelyn. Ber lin. Berlin Verlag. 2008. 314 pages. 18. isbn978-3-8270-0810-7 Ingo Schulze, born in Dresden in 1962, has established himself as one of Germany's most critically acclaimed prose writers. His literary works often deal with the complex personal and social situations inGer many afterunification in 1990, and indeed his latestmasterpiece, Adam und Evelyn, could also be considered a Wende novel, but that would over lo…
Discrimination Against Female-Headed Households in Rental Housing
(1991). Discrimination Against Female-Headed Households in Rental Housing: Theory and Exploratory Evidence. Review of Social Economy: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 76-100
Google Translate Gets Voltaire
In the fall of 2016, users of Google Translate working from French to English and English to French saw a marked improvement in the quality of the translated texts. Google Translate was beginning to develop from a purely phrase-based statistical machine translation system into a system that uses deep learning and artificial neural networks that can adapt and learn in reaction to all they encounter. The Google Translate development team has been w…
Translating Full Throttle
Lawrence Venuti is a leading translator of modern Italian and Catalan literature and internationally one of the most influential theorists in the field of literary translation. In their recent interview, Peter Constantine asked him about his craft and theory of translation
The Young Literary Scene in Kosovo
34 WLT JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2016 luta : v . l . l . constantine : annette hornischer Peter Constantine: Kosovo’s international festival of literature in Orllan has over the last few years attracted a number of Kosovar writers and international literary figures. Do you see a new energy in the Kosovo literary scene? Ragip Luta: Yes, there is definitely new energy on the Kosovo literary scene, no doubt about it! Although it is a small scene, it is col…
Discrimination Against Female-Headed Households in Rental Housing
(1991). Discrimination Against Female-Headed Households in Rental Housing: Theory and Exploratory Evidence. Review of Social Economy: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 76-100
De Republyk by Hans van der Heijde
w w Z w Pi P H w H O O iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiii key femalemember ofETA who has gone into hiding and her ten- and thirteen-year-old son and daughter, abducted by their fatherand taken to live in Caracas, Venezuela. Hav ing only recently learned of their whereabouts after some seven years without any contact whatsoever with her children, she writes a series of detailed, personal memories of theirprior lifetogether ina rednote book, which she entrusts t…
Words
POETRY librarieshas been down by 30 percent during the same period. The local government and "professional" Frisians have launched all kinds of language initiatives. When a newborn baby is registered, for instance, parents are given a "language bag" containing information about the advantages of a bilingual upbringing. There are freemagazines promoting Frisian in child-rearing or with infor mation about books and writers. You can now learnFrisian…
The Scattered Papers of Penelope
B poet by thename ofMihyar,this ^^^^B collection's Mihyar is a persona ^^^^B adoptedbyAdonis (itself a pen ^^^^B name and persona, that of a Near ^^^^B Eastern harvest god). Adonis's ^^^^fl Mihyar embodies the revolutionary, ^^^^B the anarchic, themystical, and the ^^^^B esoteric.One critichas gone so faras ^^^^B to callMihyar a post-religious figure ^HH^I and has argued that in this collec ^BjH tionMihyar /Adonis is a prophet of ^HjjH the profan…
Der Turm
Ingo Schulze. Adam und Evelyn. Ber lin. Berlin Verlag. 2008. 314 pages. 18. isbn978-3-8270-0810-7 Ingo Schulze, born in Dresden in 1962, has established himself as one of Germany's most critically acclaimed prose writers. His literary works often deal with the complex personal and social situations inGer many afterunification in 1990, and indeed his latestmasterpiece, Adam und Evelyn, could also be considered a Wende novel, but that would over lo…
A Conversation with Elske Schotanus
A Conversation with Elske Schotanus Peter Constantine lske Schotanus (www.elskeschotanus.nl) is a vital voice in European literature,a F J Dutch author who writes in Frisian, a minority language thatachieved official status in the Netherlands in 1956.Along with Europe's doz ens ofother minority languages?Ingrian, Adyghe, Arvanitika, Karaim, Sk?nsk, Meglenitic?Frisian isbattling theonslaught of linguisticglobalization that is leading to a shrinkin…
Interview with Jazra Khaleed
To a Poltergeist in the Bedroom's Northward Wall
U < ë o I ^^^^^9 TheTheoryofLiterature Aninfinite number ofmonkeys with typewriters, itissaid, wouldultimately produce thecomplete works ofShakespeare. Andshortly thereafter theworks ofDante, then Joyce, Goethe, Kafka, Dickens, Dostoevsky. Then, after somemonths, a fewpersonal writings aboutthings suchas paws,trees, or perpetual repetition. Thena little Dostoevsky again followed by thewholeof Shakespeare all over from thebeginning, linebyline. An…
A Conversation with Translator Michael Emmerich
Michael Emmerich is one of very few American scholars of Japanese literature whose research and translating bridgesthe modernand premodern divide,coveringtheclassical early modern, modern, and contemporary periods. As an undergraduate at Princeton, he translated a collection ofstories and a play byKawabata, someofwhichwerepublished inConjunctionsand Fiction. The entirecollection was subsequently publishedas FirstSnow on Fuji (Counterpoint, 1999).…
A Conversation with Jazra Khaleed
INTERVIEW A Conversation with Jazra Khaleed Peter Constantine Jazra Khaleed, born inChechnya in 1979, lives today inAthens and writes exclusively inGreek. He is among thefirst of a new generation ofGreekwriterswho were bom beyond theborders ofGreece, with roots inother cultures and languages, bringing new ideas, directions, and rhythmstoGreek poetry. Khaleed isa poet and boxer from Athens' harsh innercity;hispoetry isan indictmentof everything th…
Deep in Thought
MW^M Romeo Çollaku (b. 1973, Sarandë, southern Albania) isa poet, prose writer, editor,and translator who has lived inAthenssince 1999. He has published three books of poetry, a novel,and a book ofshortstories, and has translateda wide range ofnineteenth -and twentieth-century European writers intoAlbanian and Modern Greek, among them Mallarmé,Verlaine,Claudel, and Rilke.He has received both the Albanian NationalAwardforTranslationand the Albania…
A Naïve Poem
MW^M Romeo Çollaku (b. 1973, Sarandë, southern Albania) isa poet, prose writer, editor,and translator who has lived inAthenssince 1999. He has published three books of poetry, a novel,and a book ofshortstories, and has translateda wide range ofnineteenth -and twentieth-century European writers intoAlbanian and Modern Greek, among them Mallarmé,Verlaine,Claudel, and Rilke.He has received both the Albanian NationalAwardforTranslationand the Albania…
Reinventing Spanish as a Literary Language
The Mexican literary scene is in flux. A new generation of writers is responding to great political and social upheavals. Among these writers, the award-winning author and editor ́lvaro Enrigue is one of the most compelling and versatile. He is the author of four novels, two short-story collections, and a book of literary criticism; he has worked as an editor, doing much to promote the work of young indigenous Mexican authors writing in Mexican l…
Reinventing Spanish as a Literary Language
The Mexican literary scene is in flux. A new generation of writers is responding to great political and social upheavals. Among these writers, the award-winning author and editor ́lvaro Enrigue is one of the most compelling and versatile. He is the author of four novels, two short-story collections, and a book of literary criticism; he has worked as an editor, doing much to promote the work of young indigenous Mexican authors writing in Mexican l…
Ancient Words, Modern Words
Anne Carson is one of the foremost poets in the English language and a translator from the Ancient Greek. In this interview she talks to Peter Constantine about her literary work and her approaches to classical culture
The Young Literary Scene in Kosovo
34 WLT JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2016 luta : v . l . l . constantine : annette hornischer Peter Constantine: Kosovo’s international festival of literature in Orllan has over the last few years attracted a number of Kosovar writers and international literary figures. Do you see a new energy in the Kosovo literary scene? Ragip Luta: Yes, there is definitely new energy on the Kosovo literary scene, no doubt about it! Although it is a small scene, it is col…
On the Perils of Translating Men in Power
This article explores the challenges and dangers of rendering and translating the language of powerful leaders who use fragmented and problematic grammatical constructs in their speeches
ΓΙΑΖΡΑ ΓΚΡΟΖΝΙ (Jazra Grozny)
aphoristic phrasing and terse imagery beckon transport to world literature’s territory and the community of transnational readers who presumably reside there: “I’m standing here to turn over my language. / Everything gets lighter when it crosses the border. / I’m standing here to be translated.” With Standing on Earth, translator Lyn Coffin has granted the poet passage, giving English readers their first view into the demarcated world as Emadi re…
Translating Full Throttle
Lawrence Venuti is a leading translator of modern Italian and Catalan literature and internationally one of the most influential theorists in the field of literary translation. In their recent interview, Peter Constantine asked him about his craft and theory of translation
Greetings from Angelus
of language and culture. “Names of birds” never uses English names for them and ends with these intriguing lines: “Hamsa/ Soham / Repeat this / Until the bird / And its meanings / Are merged as One.” In Vedic literature, this combination of two words, So’ham and Hamsa, is interpreted as “I myself am the Swan,” the swan symbolizing the supreme state of being. In a poem addressed to another poet, Agha Shahid Ali, she asks, “Shahid, you said / never…
Google Translate Gets Voltaire
In the fall of 2016, users of Google Translate working from French to English and English to French saw a marked improvement in the quality of the translated texts. Google Translate was beginning to develop from a purely phrase-based statistical machine translation system into a system that uses deep learning and artificial neural networks that can adapt and learn in reaction to all they encounter. The Google Translate development team has been w…
My Virtual French Summer
After my Study Abroad program in Paris was cancelled due to COVID-19, I decided to travel to France in a different way: through a virtual literary lens. For several weeks throughout the summer of 2020, I scoured hundreds of Instagram accounts and scrolled through numerous online French literary magazines—Recours au poème, 17secondes, Revue la piscine, Levure littéraire, and Les Tas de mots—in an attempt to find a new generation of millennial poet…
Desegregating Language
Encountering postapartheid Afrikaans fiction for the first time, particularly the fast-paced crime novels of Deon Meyer, the author finds that the most unexpected element is the new lack of segregation between Afrikaans and English
Three Afrikaans Poems
POETRY Ilse van Staden is a writer, artist, and veterinarian. Though most of her published work (poetry, short stories, and a novel) is in her home language, Afrikaans, she has now also published two novels in English. Peter Constantine’s recent translations include works by Augustine, Rousseau, Machiavelli, and Tolstoy; he is a Guggenheim Fellow and winner of the PEN Translation Prize as well as a National Translation Award. He is professor of t…
Uncovering Buried Historical Memory
Uncovering Buried Historical MemoryA Conversation with Grzegorz Kwiatkowski Grzegorz Kwiatkowski (bio) and Peter Constantine (bio) Grzegorz Kwiatkowski is a new and dynamic poetic voice from Poland, with six volumes of poetry and several translations on the way, as well as the vocalist of the psychedelic postpunk band Trupa Trupa. His newest collection, Crops, translated into English by Peter Constantine, was published by Rain Taxi in November 20…
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