David Ferry (mai waka)

David Russell Ferry (Maris 5, 1924 - Nuwamba 5, 2023) mawaki ne, mai fassara, kuma mai ilimi ɗan Amurka.  Ya buga tarin waƙoƙinsa guda takwas da kuma kundin sukar adabi. Ya lashe kyautar National Book Award for Poetry saboda kundin waƙoƙinsa na 2012 mai suna Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations .

 Tarihin Rayuwa 
An haifi David Russell Ferry a Orange, New Jersey, a ranar 5 ga Maris, 1924. Ya halarci Makarantar Sakandare ta Columbia a tsakiyar “duwatsun daji” na Maplewood da ke kewayen birnin New Jersey, inda ya girma.   (Described in his poem "Narcissus") Karatunsa na farko a Kwalejin Amherst ya katse shi saboda hidimarsa a Rundunar Sojan Sama ta Amurka a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu. Daga ƙarshe ya sami digirin BA daga Amherst a 1946. Ya ci gaba da samun digirin Ph.D. daga Jami'ar Harvard, kuma a lokacin karatunsa na digiri ne ya buga waƙoƙinsa na farko a cikin The Kenyon Review .

Daga shekarar 1952 har zuwa lokacin da ya yi ritaya a shekarar 1989, Ferry ya koyar a Kwalejin Wellesley inda ya shafe shekaru da yawa yana shugabantar Sashen Turanci. Ya riƙe muƙamin Sophie Chantal Hart Farfesa Emeritus na Turanci a Wellesley. Ya kuma koyar da rubutu a Jami'ar Boston, da kuma Jami'ar Suffolk, a matsayin fitaccen malami. An zaɓe Ferry a matsayin memba na Kwalejin Fasaha da Kimiyya ta Amurka a shekarar 1998, kuma ya kasance memba na Kwalejin Mawakan Amurka .

A shekarar 1958, Ferry ta auri fitacciyar malamar adabi Anne Ferry (ta mutu a shekarar 2006), suna da 'ya'ya biyu, Elizabeth, ƙwararriyar masaniyar ɗan adam, da Stephen, ƙwararriyar 'yar jarida.  Kafin ta koma Brookline, Massachusetts, Ferry ta zauna a gefen Kogin Charles da ke Cambridge, a gidan da 'yar jarida kuma mai fafutukar kare haƙƙin mata Margaret Fuller ta zauna kafin ta shiga al'ummar Brook Farm . 

 Daraja da kyaututtuka 
A shekara ta 2000, littafin Ferry na sabbin waƙoƙi da fassarori da aka zaɓa, mai taken Of No Country I Know, ya sami kyautar Waƙoƙi ta Lenore Marshall daga Kwalejin Mawakan Amurka da kuma kyautar ƙasa ta Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt don Waƙoƙi daga Laburare na Congress (don mafi kyawun aikin waƙoƙi na shekaru biyu da suka gabata). Shi ne marubucin wani babi da aka yaba da shi na waƙar Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh . Mawaƙin WS Merwin ya bayyana aikin Ferry a matsayin "mai tabbatar da sautin shiru" wanda ke isar da "rikitattun ji tare da daidaito da alheri mara iyaka."

Ferry kuma ta karɓi kyautar fassara ta Harold Morton Landon .
Rukuni:Mutuwan 2023
Rukuni:Haifaffun 1924
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