Renowned scholar, translator, and philhellene Edmund Keeley passed away on February 23 at age 94, ANA reports.
Also a preeminent essayist and poet, Keeley was responsible for many people’s first encounters with the works of major Greek poets George Seferis, Odysseas Elytis, Constantine Cavafy, Yiannis Ritsos, and Angelos Sikelianos through his translations into English, faithful to the spirit of the originals. He also held multiple prizes for his work, both fiction and translation.
The son of a diplomat, born to American parents in Damascus in 1928, Keeley spent his childhood and youth in Syria, Canada, and in Greece during the interwar period when his father was the American consul in Thessaloniki, prior to returning to the US.
An alumnus of both Princeton and Oxford Universities, Keeley taught English and creative writing at Princeton, where he also created the Modern Greek Studies Association in 1968. He also served on the editorial boards of journals Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies, Translation Review, and The Journal of Modern Greek Studies.
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