Nikolai B. Popov

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Nikolai Boris Popov (Bulgarian: Николай Борис Попов) (born 1952) is a translator.

Nikolai Boris Popov
Born	1952 (age 72–73)
Academic work
Institutions	University of Washington

Life

Popove graduated from University of Washington, with a Ph.D., in 1994. In 2001, he participated at a conference at University of Iowa International Writing Program.^[1] He teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington.^[2] A James Joyce scholar and translator, he co-translated with Heather McHugh a collection of the poems of Blaga Dimitrova,^[3] and Paul Celan. On May 13, 2012, he fell into a crevasse while skiing near Whistler but was unscathed.^[4]

From 1987 to 2010 he was married to poet Heather McHugh.^[5]

Awards

• 2001 Griffin Poetry Prize

Translations

• Paul Celan (February 25, 2004). Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan. Translated by Nikolai Popov; Heather McHugh. Wesleyan Poetry. ISBN 978-0-8195-6720-8.