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Rae Dalven (1905-1992) was a Romaniote (Greek/Jewish) author living in the United States of America. She is best known for her translations of Cavafy's works and for her books and plays about the Jews of Ioannina.
She was a professor of Modern Greek literature at New York University (NYU), where a prize is offered in her name by the A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies.
Obituary
The American Jewish Yearbook 1994 (p. 573) has the following obituary: DALVEN, RAE, professor, translator; b. Preveza, Greece, Apr. 25, 1904; d. NYC, July 30, 1992; in U.S. since 1909. Educ: Hunter Coll., NYU (PhD). Prof., Eng. lit., and dept. chmn., Ladycliff Coll., Highland Falls, N.Y. Transl. of modern Greek poets and historian of the Jews in Greece, esp. the community of pre-Sephardic Romaniotes in Ioannina. Pres., Amer. Soc. of Sephardic Studies and ed. its journal, Sephardic Scholar; bd. mem., Amer. Friends of the Jewish Museum in Greece. Transl.: Modern Greek Poetry, Complete Poems of Cavafy, The Fourth Dimension (Yannis Ritsos), and others. Au.: The Jews of Ioannina (1990); A Season in @#!*%, a play about Rimbaud and Verlaine; and Our Kind of People, an autobiographical play.
Rae Dalven Prize
The Rae Dalven Prize, named in memory of the translator and critic Rae Dalven (1905–1992), is given For Outstanding Work In Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies At New York University.
The Rae Dalven Prize was awarded for the first time in 1997 and NYU’s A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic studies Hellenic Studies requests submissions for the annual prize to acknowledge academic excellence in Hellenic Studies among students at New York University.
Recipients
2016-Madeleine Ball
2015-Vaia Trittas
2013-John Aldrich, Essay: "All Eyes on Greece: The Greek Government-debt Crisis through the Lens of the Left-wing Media."
2012-Rebecca Bruehlman
2011-Christos Mark Birkitt
2010-Afrodite Fountas, Essay: “Mark Douka’s Fool’s Gold: Traces of the Impact of the 1967 Coup on the Greek National Consciousness.”
2009-Anna E. Venetsanos
2008-Meredith Berger
2007-Eleni Mathioudakis
2006-Maria Katradis
2004-Georgia Giannoukakis
2003-Kaleroy Tzezailidis and Megan Manos
2002-Mariza Daras
2001-John Saragas, Essay: The Greek American Diaspora in the 20th Century
2000-Niki Kekos, Essay: "Intoxicated" by Death: The Civil War Poetry of Takis Sinopoulos
1999-Evelina Zarkh, Essay: Shadows in the Mirror: Transcendent Vision and the Presence of the Past in Ritsos' "The Dead House" and "Under the Shadow of the Mountain."
1998-Artemis Loi, Essay: Language and ideology in Karapanou's Kassandra and the Wolf
1997-Areti Serkizis, Essay: Classical allusion in Seferis' Mythistorema
The Complete Poems of Cavafy: Expanded Edition Paperback – October 4, 1976 by C.P. Cavafy (Author), Rae Dalven (Translator), W. H. Auden (Introduction)
Daughters of Sappho: Contemporary Greek Women Poets Hardcover – June 1, 1994, by Rae Dalven (Editor)
Modern Greek Poetry Hardcover – January 1, 1949 , by Rae; Translated & Edited by Dalven (Author)
External links
Past Recipients of the Rae Dalven Prize on the website of the New York University: Alexander S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies
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