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    Robert Alter

    Robert Alter’s published work has earned him the PEN Center Literary Award for Translation and the Los Angeles Times’s Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is a longtime professor of comparative literature at University of California, Berkeley, and lives near campus.

    Robert Alter

    Robert Alter’s published work has earned him the PEN Center Literary Award for Translation and the Los Angeles Times’s Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is a longtime professor of comparative literature at University of California, Berkeley, and lives near campus.

    Awards

    Winner — Northern California Book Award, 2008

    Winner — PEN Center USA Literary Award for Translation, 2005

    Winner — New York Times Notable Selection, 2004

    Books by Robert Alter

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