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name: Nina Kossman
about: The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a UNESCO/PEN Short Story Award, grants from Foundation for Hellenic Culture and Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, Nina Kossman is the author of "Behind the Border" (HarperCollins,1994, 1996),"Queen of the Jews" (published under a pen name NL Herzenberg, Philistine Press, 2016) and the editor of "Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths" (Oxford University Press, 2001). Her poems in Russian were collected in two books, "Pereboi" (Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Moscow) and "Po Pravuyu Ruku Sna (Philadelphia). She is the translator of two volumes of Marina Tsvetaevas's poetry, "In the Inmost Hour of the Soul" and "Poem of the End". Her translations of Russian The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a UNESCO/PEN Short Story Award, grants from Foundation for Hellenic Culture and Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, Nina Kossman is the author of "Behind the Border" (HarperCollins,1994, 1996),"Queen of the Jews" (published under a pen name NL Herzenberg, Philistine Press, 2016) and the editor of "Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths" (Oxford University Press, 2001). Her poems in Russian were collected in two books, "Pereboi" (Khudozhestvennaya Literatura, Moscow) and "Po Pravuyu Ruku Sna (Philadelphia). She is the translator of two volumes of Marina Tsvetaevas's poetry, "In the Inmost Hour of the Soul" and "Poem of the End". Her translations of Russian poetry have been anthologized in Twentieth Century Russian Poetry (Doubleday), The Gospels in Our Image (Harcourt Brace), The World Treasury of Poetry (Norton), and Divine Inspiration (Oxford University Press). Her short stories and poems were published in many literary magazines, such as Tin House, The Threepenny Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Columbia, Confrontation, etc. Since "Queen of the Jews", Nina Kossman's novel, was published under a pen name NL Herzenberg, it is not listed on Nina Kossman's page. You can find it on Amazon and on Goodreads under NL Herzenberg."Story of Little Ai" is a translation, from Russian, of a classic novel for young readers (8-13), about adventures of a little girl in thirteenth century China. "Other Shepherds", Kossman's book of original poems with her translations of Marina Tsvetaeva, was published by Poets &amp; Traitors Press (New York, 2021).Amazon author page: https://www.amazon.com/Nina-Kossman/e... . ...more