John B. Balaban (sinh ngay 2 thang 12 nam 1943) la nha tho, dich gia nguoi My va chuyen gia van hoc Viet Nam.


Tieu su Balaban đuoc sinh ra o Philadelphia voi cha me la nguoi nhap cu Romania, Phillip va Alice Georgies Balaban. Ong đa lay đuoc bang B.A. voi danh hieu cao nhat ve tieng Anh tai Đai hoc Bang Pennsylvania nam 1966. Hoc bong Woodrow Wilson ma ong nhan đuoc trong nam cuoi tai Penn State đa cho phep ong theo hoc nganh van hoc Anh tai Đai hoc Harvard, va nhan bang A.M.
Balaban phan đoi Chien tranh Viet Nam vi ly do luong tam nen khong nhap ngu. Trong luc o Harvard, ong viet trong cuon hoi ky Remembering Heaven's Face, ong đa kien nghi voi ban quan dich khong hoan nghia vu quan su cua minh, đe ong đen Viet Nam theo Dich vu Tinh nguyen Quoc te, noi đay ong đa giang day tai mot truong đai hoc cho đen khi no bi nem bom trong cuoc Tong tan cong Tet Mau Than. Ong bi thuong o vai gam manh đan va đi so tan; sau khi hoi phuc suc khoe, ong tiep tuc cong viec va tro ve Viet Nam cung voi Uy ban Trach nhiem đieu tri tre em bi thuong trong chien tranh.

Ong roi Viet Nam nam 1969, sau đo lam chung ve thuong vong dan su truoc Tieu ban Tu phap Thuong vien do Thuong nghi si Ted Kennedy lam chu tich.
Vao nam 1971–72, khi chien tranh tiep dien, ong quay lai mot lan nua đe thu bang, phien am va dich ca dao Viet Nam, sau đo đong thanh tuyen tap Ca Dao Viet Nam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry Tuyen tap tho đau tien đuoc xuat ban cua Balaban, After Our War (1974), la mot Tuyen tap tho Lamont cua Hoc vien Nha tho Hoa Ky va đuoc đe cu cho Giai thuong Sach Quoc gia.
Nam 1999, ong tro thanh nguoi sang lap Hoi Bao ton Di san Chu Nom, to chuc nay trong hai muoi nam đa lanh đao viec bao ton ky thuat so cac van ban co o Viet Nam. Nam 2000, ong phat hanh Spring Essence, mot tap tho cua Ho Xuan Huong, la nha tho the ky 18 va nha tho nu uu tu cua Viet Nam. Cuon sach bao gom cac ban dich va phien ban tieng Anh bang ca bang chu cai tieng Viet hien hanh va he thong chu viet Chu Nom tung đuoc su dung.
Balaban đa viet tho ngoai nhung trai nghiem cua minh o Viet Nam. Bo suu tap Locusts at the Edge of Summer: Nhung bai tho moi va chon loc cua ong đa gianh đuoc Giai thuong William Carlos Williams nam 1998. Cuon sach Words for My Daughter cua ong la mot Tuyen Tap Tho Quoc Gia. Nam 2006, Path, Crooked Path đuoc Booklist binh chon la Lua chon cua Bien tap vien va Sach Tho hay nhat cua Tap chi Thu vien.
Nam 2008, ong đa đuoc Bo Van hoa Viet Nam trao tang Ky niem chuong vi đa co cong gop phan vao du an so hoa kho sach Han Nom cua Thu vien Quoc gia Viet Nam.
Ong hien đang la Giao su Danh du tai Đai hoc Bang North Carolina.


Danh sach Tho

After Our War, (Đai hoc Pittsburgh Press, 1974)
Blue Mountain, (Unicorn Press, 1982)
Words for My Daughter, (Copper Canyon Press, 1991)
Locusts at the Edge of Summer: New and Selected Poems, (Copper Canyon Press, 1997, 2003)
Like Family, (Red Dragonfly Press: Minnesota, 2009)
Path, Crooked Path, (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)
Empires, (Copper Canyon Press, thang 10, 2019)
Ban dich

Ca Dao Viet Nam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry, (Unicorn Press, 1980) (Phien ban chinh sua, Copper Canyon Press, 2003)
Vietnam: A Traveler's Literary Companion, voi Nguyen Qui Đuc, (Whereabouts Press, 1996)
Spring Essence, The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong, (Copper Canyon Press, 2000)
Sach phi hu cau

With Geoffrey Clifford: Vietnam: The Land We Never Knew, (Chronicle Books, 1989)
Remembering Heaven's Face: A Story of Rescue in Wartime Vietnam, (New York: Simon & Schuster/Poseidon, 1991. pp. 31–34) (Phien ban chinh sua Đai hoc Georgia Press, 2002)
Vien tuong

The Hawk's Tale, (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988)
Coming Down Again, (Simon & Schuster/Fireside, 1989) & E-Book (https://openroadmedia.com/ebook/coming-down-again/9781480401259)
Trong tuyen tap

Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, (University of Georgia Press, 2018)
Armistice: A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace, (Faber & Faber, 2018)
The New Oxford Book of War Poetry, (Oxford University Press, 2014)
The Pushcart Book of Essays: The best essays from a quarter-century of The Pushcart Prize, (Wainscott, NY: 2002)
The Best American Poetry:1999, (Scribner)
Carrying The Darkness: The Poetry of the Vietnam  War, (New York:  Avon Books, 1985)
Fifty Years of American Poetry, ed. Robert Penn Warren, (New York:  H. N. Abrams, Inc., 1984)


Giai thuong va danh hieu The George Garrett Prize for Service to Literature, Associated Writing Programs, 2017.
Lannan Foundation Literary Residency, Marfa, Texas. 2002 & 2008.
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2003.
National Artist Award, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, 2001–2004.
Medal from Ministry of Culture, Vietnam, 2008.
National Poetry Series Book Selection, 1990
National Endowment for Arts Fellowship (dich), 1985
National Endowment for Arts Fellowship (tho), 1978
Fulbright Distinguished Visiting Lectureship, Romania, 1979
The Steaua Prize, Romanian Writers Union, 1978


Tham khao Lien ket ngoai John Balaban's website
Audio Reading and Interview: Lannan Foundation > ngay 6 thang 11 nam 2002 > John Balaban Interviewed by Michael Silverblatt
Author Info: Poets & Writers Directory of Writers > John Balaban Listing
Audio: The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor > Poems by John Balaban