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Peter Filkins

Peter Filkins
Peter Filkins is an award-winning translator and poet. He has translated three novels by H.G. Adler, Panorama, The Journey, and The Wall, as well as the collected poems of Ingeborg Bachmann. He is the Richard B. Fisher Professor of Literature at Bard College at Simon's Rock and author of H. G. Adler A Life in Many Worlds (Oxford University Press, 2019).


On H.G. Adler’s Lectures from a Concentration Camp

"For Adler there is no room for escape. . ."
March 13, 2019  By Peter Filkins
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