Cousin Shakespeare

Adam J. Sorkin has published more than sixty books of Romanian poetry in English translation and won numerous recognitions including the Kenneth Rexroth, Ioan Flora, and Poesis Translation Prizes, among others. His collaborative translation with Lidia Vianu of Marin Sorescu's The Bridge (Bloodaxe Books, 2004) was awarded the 2005 Poetry Society (UK) Corneliu M. Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation. With Vianu as primary co-translator, Editura Institutul Cultural Român published The Past Perfect of Flight, poems by Marin Sorescu, also 2004. Most recently, Sorkin was recognized for Nora Iuga's The Hunchbacks' Bus, (Bitter Oleander, 2016), longlisted for the 2017 National Translation Award in Poetry (USA). In 2018, Bloodaxe published his translation with Vianu of Mircea Dinescu's The Barbarians' Return, and his versions of selected Emilian Galaicu-Păun poems were awarded second prize in the John Dryden Translation Competition of the British Comparative Literature Association/British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia. Sorkin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Penn State Brandywine.