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Daniel Borzutzky | |
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| Born | 1974 (age 50–51) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
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| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable works | The Performance of Becoming Human |
| Notable awards | National Book Award |
| Children | Lorenzo Borzutzky, Felix Borzutzky |
Daniel Borzutzky (born 1974) [3] is a Chicago-based poet and translator. His collection The Performance of Becoming Human won the 2016 National Book Award. [4]
Born in 1974 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Chilean immigrants to the United States, [5] Borzutzky in his work often addresses immigration, worker exploitation, political corruption, and economic disparity. [6]
He received a BA degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. [1]
Borzutzky has received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. [1] He is an Associate Professor of English and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. [7]
His 2018 collection Lake Michigan was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. In 2021, he published Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018, which was reviewed in The New Yorker and was a finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Poetry Award. His other books include In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy; Memories of my Overdevelopment; and The Book of Interfering Bodies.
Alongside his writing, Borzutzky is also known for his work as a translator. He received the 2017 American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award for his translation of Galo Ghigliotto's Valdivia (Co-im-press, 2016) and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of The Country of Planks (Action Books, 2015) by the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita. [1]
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