Jonas Zdanys

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Jonas Zdanys (born 1950) is a bilingual poet, a leading translator of modern Lithuanian fiction and poetry into the English language. and a literary theorist whose writings on translation theory reinforce a conservative humanistic literary agenda. He was born in New Britain, Connecticut, in 1950, a few months after his parents arrived in the United States from a United Nations camp for Lithuanian refugees. He is a graduate of Yale University and earned a Ph.D. in English literature from the State University of New York, where he studied with poets John Logan and Robert Creeley among other writers.