Ivar Vidrik Ivask (December 17, 1927

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– September 23, 1992 Fountainstown, Ireland) was an

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n poet and literary scholar. He escaped in 1944 from Estonia to Germany and lived from 1949 onwards in the United States and from 1991 in Ireland. He worked as a professor of Modern Languages and Literatures in the

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, writing mainly on Spanish language literature. From 1967 to 1991 he was the editor-in-chief of the international literary quarterly

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(formerly Books Abroad) and directed its two affiliated biennial literary programs, the

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(1970- ) and the Puterbaugh Conferences on Writers of the French-Speaking and Hispanic World (1968- ), later known as Puterbaugh Conference on World Literature.Lituanus. Lithuanian Quarterly Journal of Arts and Sciences. Volume 32, No. 1 - Spring 198

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n poet and translator Astrid Ivask (1926–2015).

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