Karen Emmerich

Karen Emmerich is a translator of Greek poetry, prose, and drama, and an associate professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. She received the National Translation Award in 2019 for Ersi Sotiropoulos's What's Left of the Night , the Best Translated Book Award in 2017 for Eleni Vakalo's Before Lyricism , and the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award in 2014 for Yannis Ritsos's Diaries of Exile . She has translated books by Miltos Sachtouris, Margarita Karapanou, Christos...See more

Karen Emmerich is a translator of Greek poetry, prose, and drama, and an associate professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. She received the National Translation Award in 2019 for Ersi Sotiropoulos's What's Left of the Night , the Best Translated Book Award in 2017 for Eleni Vakalo's Before Lyricism , and the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award in 2014 for Yannis Ritsos's Diaries of Exile . She has translated books by Miltos Sachtouris, Margarita Karapanou, Christos Ikonomou, Kallia Papadaki, and others. See less