Nikolai B. Popov

Nikolai Boris Popov (Николай Борис Попов) (born 1952) is a translator.

Life
Popove graduated from University of Washington, with a Ph.D., in 1994. In 2001, he participated at a conference at University of Iowa International Writing Program. He teaches English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. A James Joyce scholar and translator, he co-translated with Heather McHugh a collection of the poems of Blaga Dimitrova, and Paul Celan. On May 13, 2012, he fell into a crevasse while skiing near Whistler but was unscathed.

From 1987 to 2010 he was married to poet Heather McHugh.

Awards

 * 2001 Griffin Poetry Prize