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“Through his work as a translator into English of the major Greek poets of the modern era, Edmund Keely was…
Edmund White is an esteemed novelist and cultural critic. He is the author of some 25 books, including a biography…
To a living American author whose scale of achievement in fiction, over a sustained career, places him or her in…
Edmund Keeley is the author of eight novels, fifteen volumes of poetry and fiction in translation, and ten volumes of…
Edmund Leroy Keeley, author, translator, educator, critic, and administrator, was born in Damascus, Syria, on February 5, 1928. When he…
PEN America announced today that it will honor legendary author and LGBT cultural pioneer Edmund White with the annual PEN/Saul…
Celebrating PEN American Center’s 90th anniversary, we’re checking in with former presidents, staff, and active members to reflect on the…
Winner Karen Emmerich & Edmund Keeley, Diaries of Exile by Yannis Ritsos (Archipelago) The $3,000 PEN Award for Poetry in…