Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
Daniel Adam Mendelsohn is an American author, essayist, critic, columnist, and translator. He is known for his work on classical literature and culture, as well as his memoirs and essays on various topics. Mendelsohn is the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College and Editor-at-Large of The New York Review of Books. He has received numerous awards for his writing and translations.
Awards
['Premio Malaparte (Italy)', "Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Ministry of Culture", 'Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (Best Foreign Book Prize)', 'National Books Critics Circle Award', 'National Jewish Book Award', 'Prix Médicis', 'American Academy of Arts and Letters Harry Vursell Prize for Prose Style', 'Guggenheim Fellowship', 'Barnes and Noble Discover Prize', 'NBCC Citation for Excellence in Book Reviewing', 'George Jean Nathan Prize for Drama Criticism', "Princeton University's James Madison Medal"]
Notable Works
['The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million', 'An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic', 'Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate', 'The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity', "Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays", 'C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems', 'The Odyssey (translation)']
