Avi Sharon
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Occupation
- Poet
- professor
- translator
- consultant
NationalityAmerican
EducationEmory University
Boston University (PhD)
Boston University (PhD)
Notable awardsHarold Morton Landon Translation Award (2009)
Avi Sharon | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Emory University Boston University (PhD) |
| Notable awards | Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (2009) |
| Children | 2 |
Avi Sharon is a professor of classics, translator and consultant.
He graduated from Emory University, and Boston University, with a Ph.D. in classics, where he studied under Donald Carne-Ross and William Arrowsmith.
His work has appeared in Arion,[1] Partisan Review, Waves,[2] Journal of Modern Greek Studies,[3] Kenyon Review,[4] Yale Review,[5] and International Quarterly.
He works on Wall Street,[6] and lives in Brooklyn, with his wife and two sons.[7]
Awards
- 1996 Alexander S. Onassis Fellowship for scholars of Greek
- 2009 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award
- 2012 The Hellenic Foundation for Culture Translation Prize (Greek)[8]
