Rika Lesser

Rika Lesser (born 1953 Brooklyn, New York) is a U.S. poet, and is a translator of Swedish and German literary works.

Life
Lesser has produced three collections of her own poetry, including Etruscan Things (1983), and her prose translations include A Living Soul by P. C. Jersild and Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse.

Awards
In 1982, she was awarded the Landon Poetry Translation Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and received the Poetry Translation Prize of the Swedish Academy in 1996 and in 2003.

Poetry

 * Etruscan things: poems. G. Braziller, 1983. ISBN 978-0-8076-1058-9
 * All we need of hell: poems. [[University of North Texas Press], 1995. ISBN 978-0-929398-92-1
 * Growing back: poems, 1972-1992. [[University of South Carolina Press], 1997. ISBN 978-1-57003-233-2