Richard Sieburth

Richard Sieburth’s translations include Friedrich Holderlin’s Hymns and Fragments, Walter Benjamin’s Moscow Diary, Nerval’s Selected Writings, Henri Michaux’s Emergences/Resurgences, Michel Leiris’ Nights as Day, Days as Night, and Gershom Sholem’s poetry. His English edition of the Nerval won the 2000 PEN/Book-of-the-Month-Club Translation Prize. His translation of Maurice Scève’s Délie was a finalist for the PEN Translation Prize and the Weidenfeld Prize. He is most recently the translator of Gérard de Nerval's The Salt Smugglers (Archipelago Books, 2009).