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Bill Johnston

Bill Johnston is a Professor of comparative literature at Indiana University and prolific Polish language literary translator. He is ntoable for exposing English-speaking readers to classic and contemporary Polish poetry and fiction. He was awarded both Best Translated Book Award and the PEN Translation Prize. In 2008 he received the Found in Translation Award for his translation of new poems by Tadeusz Różewicz, a finalist for the National Books Critics Circle Poetry Award.

Associated event

Jeanne Benameur in Conversation with Bill Johnston and Tice Cin