Benjamin Ivry
Encyclopedia
Benjamin Ivry is an American writer on the arts, broadcaster and translator.
Ivry is author of biographies of Francis Poulenc
, Arthur Rimbaud
, and Maurice Ravel
, as well as a poetry collection, Paradise for the Portuguese Queen. The latter contains poems that first appeared in, among other places, The New Yorker
, The London Review of Books, The Spectator
, Ambit Magazine, and The New Republic
.
He has also translated books from the French by authors such as André Gide
, Jules Verne
, Witold Gombrowicz
, and Balthus
. Ivry has written about the arts for a variety of periodicals including The New York Observer, New York Sun
, New England Review
, The Economist
, The Wall Street Journal
, Newsweek
, Time
, The New Statesman
, The New York Times
, Bloomberg.com, and The Washington Post
.
Ivry is author of biographies of Francis Poulenc
Francis Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and a member of the French group Les six. He composed solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music...
, Arthur Rimbaud
Arthur Rimbaud
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud was a French poet. Born in Charleville, Ardennes, he produced his best known works while still in his late teens—Victor Hugo described him at the time as "an infant Shakespeare"—and he gave up creative writing altogether before the age of 21. As part of the decadent...
, and Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
, as well as a poetry collection, Paradise for the Portuguese Queen. The latter contains poems that first appeared in, among other places, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, The London Review of Books, The Spectator
The Spectator
The Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture...
, Ambit Magazine, and The New Republic
The New Republic
The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
.
He has also translated books from the French by authors such as André Gide
André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide...
, Jules Verne
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
, Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Gombrowicz
Witold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish novelist and dramatist. His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and an absurd, anti-nationalist flavor...
, and Balthus
Balthus
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola , best known as Balthus, was an esteemed but controversial Polish-French modern artist....
. Ivry has written about the arts for a variety of periodicals including The New York Observer, New York Sun
New York Sun
The New York Sun was a weekday daily newspaper published in New York City from 2002 to 2008. When it debuted on April 16, 2002, adopting the name, motto, and masthead of an otherwise unrelated earlier New York paper, The Sun , it became the first general-interest broadsheet newspaper to be started...
, New England Review
New England Review
The New England Review is a quarterly literary magazine published by Middlebury College. Founded in New Hampshire in 1978 by poet, novelist, editor and professor Sydney Lea and poet Jay Parini, it was published as New England Review & Bread Loaf Quarterly from 1982 , until 1991 as a formal...
, The Economist
The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
, The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
, Newsweek
Newsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
, Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
, The New Statesman
The New Statesman
The New Statesman is an award-winning British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time...
, The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, Bloomberg.com, and The Washington Post
The Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
.
Biographies
- Francis Poulenc, 1996, Phaidon, ISBN 071483503X
- Arthur Rimbaud, 1998, Absolute Press, ISBN 189979171X
- Maurice Ravel: a Life, 2000, Welcome Rain, ISBN 1566491525, translated into Japanese by Shun Ishihara as *Mōrisu raveru : aru shōgai, 2002, Arufabēta, ISBN 4871984699
Poetry
- Paradise for the Portuguese Queen: Poems by Benjamin Ivry, 1998, Orchises Press, ISBN 0914061690
Nonfiction
- Regatta: a Celebration of The Art of Oarsmanship, 1988, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671699369
Translations
- Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam ZagajewskiAdam ZagajewskiAdam Zagajewski is a Polish poet, novelist, translator and essayist.In 1982 he emigrated to Paris, but in 2002 he returned to Poland, and resides in Kraków. His poem "Try To Praise The Mutilated World", printed in The New Yorker, became famous after the 11 September attacks...
, translated by Benjamin Ivry with Renata Gorczynski and Clare Cavanagh, 2002, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0374220964 - Magellania by Jules VerneJules VerneJules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...
, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2002, Welcome Rain Publishers, ISBN 1566491792 - Judge Not by André GideAndré GideAndré Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide...
, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2003, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0252028449 - Vanished Splendors, a Memoir by BalthusBalthusBalthasar Klossowski de Rola , best known as Balthus, was an esteemed but controversial Polish-French modern artist....
, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2003, Ecco Press, ISBN 006621260X - Mon Docteur, Le Vin (My Doctor, Wine) by Gaston Derys with Watercolors by Raoul DufyRaoul DufyRaoul Dufy[p] was a French Fauvist painter. He developed a colorful, decorative style that became fashionable for designs of ceramics and textiles, as well as decorative schemes for public buildings. He is noted for scenes of open-air social events...
, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2003, Yale University Press, ISBN 0300101333 - A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes, by Witold GombrowiczWitold GombrowiczWitold Marian Gombrowicz was a Polish novelist and dramatist. His works are characterized by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and an absurd, anti-nationalist flavor...
, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2007, Yale University Press, ISBN 030012368X - At Home with André and Simone Weil, by Sylvie Weil, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2010, Northwestern University Press, ISBN 0810127043
Book Chapters, Prefaces, Editions
- The Trouble with Being Born, by E. M. Cioran, translated by Richard HowardRichard HowardRichard Howard is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches...
, preface by Benjamin Ivry, 1993, Quartet Books, ISBN 0704301806 - Entretiens, by E. M. Cioran, chapter by Benjamin Ivry, 1995, Gallimard Publishers, ISBN 2070733947
- Love & Folly: Selected Fables and Tales of La Fontaine, by Jean de La FontaineJean de La FontaineJean de La Fontaine was the most famous French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century. He is known above all for his Fables, which provided a model for subsequent fabulists across Europe and numerous alternative versions in France, and in French regional...
, translated by Marie PonsotMarie PonsotMarie Ponsot, née Birmingham is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator.-Life:Ponsot was born in Brooklyn, New York, but along with her brother grew up in Jamaica, Queens. She was already writing poems as a child, some of which were published in the Brooklyn Daily...
, edited and prefaced by Benjamin Ivry, 2002, Welcome Rain Publishers, ISBN 1566492270 - American Writers: a Collection of Literary Biographies. Supplement XIV, Cleanth Brooks to Logan Pearsall Smith, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Logan Pearsall SmithLogan Pearsall SmithLogan Pearsall Smith was an American-born essayist and critic.Smith was born in Millville, New Jersey the son of the prominent Quakers Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith. His father's family had become wealthy from its glass factories...
by Benjamin Ivry, 2004, Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN 0684312344 - British Writers Supplement X, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Norman DouglasNorman DouglasGeorge Norman Douglas was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind.-Life:Norman Douglas was born in Thüringen, Austria . His mother was Vanda von Poellnitz...
by Benjamin Ivry, 2004, Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN 068431312X - The Oxford Encyclopaedia of American Literature, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Herman MelvilleHerman MelvilleHerman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. He is best known for his novel Moby-Dick and the posthumous novella Billy Budd....
by Benjamin Ivry, 2004, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195156536 - The Oxford Encyclopaedia of American Literature, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Richard HowardRichard HowardRichard Howard is an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio and is a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied under Mark Van Doren, and where he now teaches...
by Benjamin Ivry, 2004, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0195156536 - King Solomon's Mines, by H. Rider HaggardH. Rider HaggardSir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a founder of the Lost World literary genre. He was also involved in agricultural reform around the British Empire...
, preface by Benjamin Ivry, 2004, Barnes & Noble Classics, ISBN 1593082754 - American Writers : a Collection of Literary Biographies. Supplement XVI, John James Audubon to Gustaf Sobin, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Anita LoosAnita LoosAnita Loos was an American screenwriter, playwright and author.-Early life:Born Corinne Anita Loos in Sisson, California , where her father, R. Beers Loos, had opened a tabloid newspaper for which her mother, Minerva "Minnie" Smith did most of the work of a newspaper publisher...
by Benjamin Ivry, 2007, Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN 0684315106 - British Writers . Supplement XVI, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Thomas CampionThomas CampionThomas Campion was an English composer, poet and physician. He wrote over a hundred lute songs; masques for dancing, and an authoritative technical treatise on music.-Life:...
by Benjamin Ivry, 2010, Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN 1414439032 - American Writers: Supplement XX, a Collection of Literary Biographies, edited by Jay Parini, essay on Howard Overing Sturgis by Benjamin Ivry, 2010, Charles Scribner's Sons, ISBN 1414438923
External links
- poems and translations published in The New Yorker
- poems in The Evergreen Review
- articles in the New York Sun
- articles in the New York Observer
- articles in The Forward Newspaper
- contributions to the Horizon section of Commentary Magazine
- Alan Riding, 'The Secret Pan', Review of Maurice Ravel: A Life, New York Times, December 3, 2000.
- Jori Finkel, 'Like a Prayer: The Naked Ambition of Balthus', Review of Vanished Splendors, a Memoir by Balthus, Village Voice, January 15–21, 2003.
- Louis BegleyLouis BegleyLouis Begley is an American novelist.-Early life:Begley was born Ludwik Begleiter in Stryj at the time part of Poland and now in Ukraine, as the only child of a physician...
, 'The Late, Great Bard of Warsaw', Review of A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes, Washington Post, December 19, 2004. - Peter Monaghan, 'Mystic and Mysterious', Review of At Home With André and Simone Weil, The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 20, 2010.
- Piers Paul ReadPiers Paul ReadPiers Paul Read, FRSL is a British novelist and non-fiction writer.-Background:Read was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire...
, 'A bitter legacy', Review of At Home With André and Simone Weil, The Spectator, January 8, 2011.