Frederick Turner
WINS THE 2004-2005 GJENIMA PRIZE IN LITERATURE
for lifetime achievements and
for his work as translator of poetry.
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Fred Turner is founder of two influential movements in contemporary American poetry, New Formalism and New Narrative (sometimes referred to together as Expansive Poetry). He has authored numerous books on an array of topics and has won numerous literary, artistic and academic honors, including an Emmy. He has appeared in several television documentaries, and his work has been translated and published in French, German, Japanese, Spanish, Hungarian, Italian, Albanian and other languages. He has lectured or given poetry readings at over a hundred institutions in the U.S., Canada, Western and Eastern Europe. He has worked in recent years with Zsuzsanna Ozsváth on a major collection of translations of work by Hungarian Jewish poet Miklós Radnóti, who perished in the Holocaust. His most recent collection, Paradise: Selected Poems, 1990-2003, won the David Robert Poetry Prize. He is currently a Founders Professor at The University of Texas at Dallas.
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