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Andrew Zawacki (born May 22, 1972) is an American poet, critic, editor, and translator. His first book ''By Reason of Breakings'' won the 2001 University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series, chosen by Forrest Gander.〔 *() Contemporary Poetry Series web site〕 Work from his second book, ''Anabranch'', was awarded the 2002 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. The volume also includes his 2001 chapbook ''Masquerade'', selected by C.D. Wright to receive the 2002 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award.〔 *(''Anabranch'' (2004) ), Wesleyan University Press web site〕 "Georgia," a long poem opening Zawacki's third book, ''Petals of Zero Petals of One'', won the 1913 Prize and was published in ''1913: a journal of forms'', with short introductions by Peter Gizzi and Cole Swensen. He has held fellowships from the Résidence internationale Ville de Paris / Institut Français aux Récollets in France, the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy, Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, Le Château de Lavigny in Switzerland, the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies in Austria, the University of Paris IV—La Sorbonne in France, the Slovenian Writers' Association in Slovenia, the Millay Colony, the Saltonstall Colony, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Zawacki has coedited the international literary magazine Verse with Brian Henry since 1995 and has taught at the University of Georgia since 2005. ==Life and work== Zawacki was educated at the College of William and Mary and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at the University of Oxford and the University of St Andrews. A former Fulbright Scholar to Australia, he earned his Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Zawacki is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.. Along with Andrew Joron, Zawacki is the literary co-executor of poet, novelist, and essayist Gustaf Sobin.〔(University of Arizona Poetry Center, Words Through: a Tribute to Gustaf Sobin ) On the occasion of the publication of Sobin's ''Collected Poetry'' March 2010. The tribute took place on March 6, 2010 and featured, along with Joron and Zawacki, other writers and artists〕 Zawacki's essays and reviews have appeared in national and international journals, among them the ''Times Literary Supplement'', ''Boston Review'', ''Chicago Review'', ''How2'', ''Open Letter'', ''Australian Book Review'', ''New German Critique'', ''P.N. Review'', and elsewhere. He edited ''Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995'', the first comprehensive anthology of Slovenian poetry, fiction, and non-fiction to appear in the US, as well as editing and co-translating Aleš Debeljak's new and selected poems, ''Without Anesthesia'' (Persea Books, 2011). He is also the translator, from the French, of poet Sébastien Smirou's ''My Lorenzo'', published in 2012 by Burning Deck, with an introduction by Jennifer Moxley. Translated into French by Sika Fakambi, ''Georgia'' was published in France in 2009 by Éditions de l'Attente, who also brought out ''Carnet Bartleby'', in Fakambi's translation, in 2012. The French edition of Zawacki's first book, ''Par Raison de brisants'', translated by Antoine Cazé, was issued by Éditions Grèges in 2011 and was a finalist for Le Prix Nelly Sachs. He is of Polish descent.〔Józef Wittlin & Modern Polish and Polish-American Poetry: A Commemorative Anthology. 2001.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andrew Zawacki」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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