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Mutlu Konuk
Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1944–2021) was a Turkish-American poetry critic and translator, Professor Emerita of English at Brown University. As well as four books on American poetry, she published ten books of translation and a biography of the Turkish poet Nâzım Hikmet. Life Mutlu Konuk was born on June 27, 1944. She married the poet and translator Randy Blasing. In the mid-1970s, the pair started spending summers in Turkey translating the work of Nâzım Hikmet together. She died in her summer home in Turkey on August 16, 2021. Works * (tr. with Randy Blasing) ''Things I didn't know I loved : selected poems of Nazim Hikmet'' by Nâzım Hikmet. 1975. * (tr. with Randy Blasing) ''The epic of Sheik Bedreddin and other poems'' by Nâzım Hikmet. 1977. * ''The art of life : studies in American autobiographical literature''. 1977. * ''American poetry--the rhetoric of its forms''. 1980. * (tr. with Randy Blasing) ''Rubáiyát'' by Nâzım Hikmet. 1985. * (tr. with Randy Blasing) ''Selec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown University
Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Brown is one of nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Admissions at Brown is among the most selective in the United States. In 2022, the university reported a first year acceptance rate of 5%. It is a member of the Ivy League. Brown was the first college in the United States to codify in its charter that admission and instruction of students was to be equal regardless of their religious affiliation. The university is home to the oldest applied mathematics program in the United States, the oldest engineering program in the Ivy League, and the third-oldest medical program in New England. The university was one of the early doctoral-granting U.S. institutions in the late 19th century, adding masters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
