Daniel Borzutzky
LAS Distinguished Professor
English and LALS
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Building & Room:
1907 UH (MC 192)
Address:
601 S Morgan St
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About
Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and translator from Spanish, whose books of poetry include:
- The Murmuring Grief of the Americas (Coffee House Press, 2024)
- Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 (Coffee House Press, 2021)
- Lake Michigan (University of Pittsburgh, 2018). Finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize
- The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016). Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry
- In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat, 2015)
- The Book of Interfering Bodies (Nightboat, 2011)
His translations include:
- The Deer Book by Cecilia Vicuña (Radius Books, 2024)
- The Loose Pearl by Paula Ilabaca Nuñez (Coimpress, 2022). Winner of the Pen Award for Poetry in Translation
- Valdivia by Galo Ghigliotto (Coimpress, 2017). Winner of the American Literary Translation Association’s National Translation Award
- The Country of Planks by Raúl Zurita (Action Books, 2015)
- Song for his Disappeared Love by Raúl Zurita (Action Books, 2010)
- Port Trakl by Jaime Luis Huenún (Action Books, 2008)
He holds a joint appointment in English and Latin American and Latino Studies; and he is Director of UIC’s new Center for Latinx Literature of the Americas (lxla.uic.edu), a cultural and programming hub for hemispheric art and literature. He has also served as a Founding Artistic Director for the Lit and Luz Festival. He teaches courses in Creative Writing, Literature, and Latin American and Latinx Culture.