Jonas Zdanys

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1950 –

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Who is Jonas Zdanys?

Jonas Zdanys is a bilingual poet, a leading translator of modern Lithuanian fiction and poetry into the English language., and a literary theorist whose writings on translation theory reinforce a conservative humanistic literary agenda. He was born in New Britain, Connecticut, in 1950, a few months after his parents arrived in the United States from a United Nations camp for Lithuanian refugees. He is a graduate of Yale University and earned a Ph.D. in English literature from the State University of New York, where he studied with Robert Creeley among other writers.

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Born
1950
Connecticut
Education
  • Yale University

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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