Bill Johnston received the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry for his rendering of Adam Mickiewicz’s epic narrative poem in rhyming couplets Pan Tadeusz. He translates from Polish and French; his recent translations have included work by Julia Fiedorczuk, Wiesław Myśliwski, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, and Jeanne Benameur. His other honors include the PEN Translation Prize, the Best Translated Book Award for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches literary translation at Indiana University.

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