title: Edmund Keeley
text: # Edmund Keeley
  
  Edmund Leroy Keeley detto "Mike" (Damasco, 5 febbraio 1928 – 23 febbraio 2022) è stato uno scrittore, traduttore e saggista statunitense.
  
  ## Biografia
  
  Figlio del diplomatico James Hugh Keeley Jr e fratello del diplomatico Robert V. Keeley, Edmund Keeley nacque in Siria e crebbe tra il Canada, la Grecia e Washington. Nel 1949 ottenne la laurea presso l'Università di Princeton, mentre nel 1952 conseguì un dottorato di ricerca in letterature comparate presso l'Università di Oxford. Professore di letteratura inglese, scrittura creativa e studi ellenici a Princeton fino al 1994, Keeley ha tradutto in inglese le opere di importanti poeti greci del XX secolo, tra cui Konstantinos Kavafis, Ghiannis Ritsos, Giorgos Seferis e Odysseas Elytīs. Per la sua opera come traduttore è stato finalista del National Book Award nel 1973 e ha vinto il PEN Award per la poesia in traduzione nel 2014 per la sua versione inglese dei Diari dell'esilio di Ritsos.
  
  ## Opere principali
  
  ### Romanzi
  
  * The Gold-hatted Lover, Little, Brown and Company, 1961
  * The Imposter, Doubleday, 1970
  * Voyage to a Dark Island, Curtis Books, 1972
  * A Wilderness Called Peace, Simon & Schuster, 1985
  * Albanian Journal, the Road to Elbasan, White Pine Press, 1997
  * Inventing Paradise. The Greek Journey, 1937-47, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999
  * Some Wine for Remembrance, White Pine Press, 2002
  * Borderlines, A Memoir, White Pine Press, 2005
  * The Megabuilders of Queenston Park, Wild River Books, 2014
  * Requiem for Mary, Greenhouse Review Press, 2015
  
  ### Poesia
  
  * The Problem of Time and Other Poems, Greenhouse Review Press. 2018
  
  ### Saggistica
  
  * Problems in rendering Modern Greek, Thessalonike, 1975
  * Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress, Harvard University Press, 1976
  * Ritsos in Parentheses, Princeton University Press, 1979
  * The Salonika Bay Murder, Cold War Politics and the Polk Affair, Princeton University Press, 1989
  * School for Pagan Lovers, Rutgers University Press, 1993
  * On Translation: Reflections and Conversations, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1998
  
  ### Traduzioni e curatele
  
  * Six Poets of Modern Greece, Alfred A. Knopf, 1961
  * Vassilis Vassilikos, 'The Plant,' 'The Well,' 'The Angel': A Trilogy, Knopf, 1964.
  * Four Greek Poets, Penguin Books, 1965
  * George Seferis, Collected Poems: 1924-1955, Princeton University Press, 1967
  * C. P. Cavafy, Passions and Ancient Days, Hogarth Press, 1972
  * Modern Greek Writers: Solomos, Calvos, Matesis, Palamas, Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Seferis, Elytis, Princeton University Press, 1972
  * C. P. Cavafy, Selected Poems, Princeton University Press, 1972
  * Odysseus Elytis, The Axion Esti, Pittsburgh University Press, 1972
  * C. P. Cavafy, Three Poems of Passion, Plain Wrapper Press, 1975
  * C. P. Cavafy, Collected Poems, Princeton University Press, 1975
  * Angelos Sikelianos, Selected Poems, Princeton University Press, 1979
  * Odysseus Elytis, Selected Poems Viking-Penguin, 1981
  * The Dark Crystal: An Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry, Denise Harvey & CO, 1981
  * Voices of Modern Greece: Selected Poems of C.P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, George Seferis, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos, Princeton University Press, 1981
  * Yannis Ritsos, Return and Other Poems Parallel Editions, 1983
  * C. P. Cavafy, A Selection of Poems, Camberwell Press, 1985
  * Yannis Ritsos, Exile and Return: Selected Poems, 1967-74 Ecco Press, 1985
  * The Legacy of R.P. Blackmur: Essays, Memoirs, Texts, Ecco Press, 1987
  * Yannis Ritsos: Repetitions, Testimonies, Parentheses Princeton University Press, 1991
  * The Essential Cavafy, Ecco Press, 1995
  * George Seferis, Collected Poems, Princeton University Press, 1995
  * Angelos Sikelianos: Selected Poems, Denise Harvey, 1996
  * George Seferis and Edmund Keeley: Correspondence, 1951-1971 Princeton University Library, 1997
  * A Century of Greek Poetry 1900-2000: Bilingual Edition, Cosmos Publishing, 2004
  * Selected Poems Of Odysseus Elytis, Anvil Press, 2007
  * The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present, W. W. Norton, 2009
  