Anthony Kerrigan

Anthony Kerrigan
Born
Anthony Kerrigan

(1918-03-14)March 14, 1918
Winchester, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedMarch 7, 1991(1991-03-07) (aged 72)
Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.
OccupationTranslator, poet, critic
NationalityAmerican
Notable worksSelected Works of Miguel de Unamuno (Bollingen/Princeton University Press); English edition of Borges's Ficciones (1962)
Notable awardsNational Book Award (Translation, 1975)

Anthony Kerrigan (March 14, 1918 – March 7, 1991) was an American translator, poet, and literary critic best known for his multi-volume editions of Miguel de Unamuno in English for the Bollingen Series (Princeton University Press) and for editing and introducing the first complete U.S. edition in English of Jorge Luis Borges's Ficciones (Grove Press, 1962). He won the National Book Award in Translation in 1975 for Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith, and was also a 1974 finalist for The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations.

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