BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2014 – 2015

Peter Filkins

For a biography of H.G. Adler

Peter Filkins is a poet and translator who teaches writing and literature at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and translation at Bard’s main campus. He is the author of four books of poetry, What She Knew, After Homer, Augustine’s Vision, and The View We’re Granted, and he has translated the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann, Songs in Flight, and her novels The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann. He has been a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin, and he has received awards from the American Literary Translators Association, the Austrian government, and DAAD, Fulbright, Marbach, and other fellowships. His work has appeared in The New Republic, The American Scholar, The Paris Review, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. As a Leon Levy fellow, he worked on a biography of H.G. Adler, whose Holocaust novels The Journey, Panorama, and The Wall he has translated, all published by Random House. His biography of Adler is published by Oxford University Press.