Marilyn Hacker

Marilyn Hacker is the author of twelve books of poems, including Names (Norton, 2009) Essays on Departure (Carcanet Press, UK, 2006) and Desesperanto (Norton, 2003). Her ten volumes of translations from the French include Hédi Kaddour's Treason (Yale University Press, 2010), , Emmanuel Moses' He and I (Oberlin College Press, 2009), Marie Etienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen (Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2008) which received the 2009 American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, Vénus Khoury-Ghata's Alphabets of Sand (Carcanet Press, UK, 2008)and Rachida Madani's Tales of a Severed Head (Yale, 2012). She is a past recipient of the Academy of American Poets' Lenore Marshall Award, the Poets' Prize, the National Book Award, two Lambda Literary Awards, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the PEN Voelcker Award and the Argana International Poetry Award from the House of Poetr/ Beit as-Shir in Morocco for 2011.She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and lives in Paris.