Paul Schmidt (translator)

Paul Schmidt
Born 1934
Brooklyn
Died February 19, 1999
Occupation professor, translator
Language English
Nationality American
Alma mater Colgate University
Genre poetry, plays
Notable awards Helen Hayes Award, Kesselring Award
Spouse Stockard Channing (1970-1976; divorced)

Paul Schmidt (1934 Brooklyn – February 19, 1999) was an American translator, poet, playwright, and essayist.[1]

Biography

He graduated from Colgate University in 1955, and studied at Harvard University.

He studied mime with Marcel Marceau and acting with Jacques Charon.

He served in the U.S. Army Intelligence, from 1958 to 1960.

Schmidt was professor at the University of Texas at Austin, from 1967 to 1976. He also taught at the Yale School of Drama.

He translated Euripides, Chekhov, Velimir Khlebnikov, Brecht, Genet, Gogol, Marivaux, and Mayakovsky.

He wrote three plays, one of which, Black Sea Follies won the Helen Hayes Award, and Kesselring Award for best play.

Schmidt's work was profiled in The New York Review of Books.[2]

He was married to Stockard Channing.[3]

Works

  • Night Life, Painted Leaf Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-9651558-0-9
  • Winter Solstice, Painted Leaf Press, 1996, ISBN 978-0-9651558-2-3

Translations

  • Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works, 1975; HarperPerennial, 2000, ISBN 978-0-06-095550-2
  • Meyerhold at work, University of Texas Press, 1980, ISBN 978-0-292-75058-6
  • Velimir Khlebnikov (1985). Charlotte Douglas, ed. The king of time: selected writings of the Russian futurian. Translator Paul Schmidt. Harvard University Press.
  • The Plays of Anton Chekhov. HarperCollins. 1998. ISBN 978-0-06-092875-9.
  • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1999). Ivanov. Translator Paul Schmidt. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8222-1646-9.
  • Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1999). Seven short farces. Translator Paul Schmidt. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. ISBN 978-0-8222-1645-2.
  • Catherine Ciepiela, Honor Moore, eds. (2007). The Stray Dog cabaret: a book of Russian poems. Translator Paul Schmidt. New York Review of Books. ISBN 978-1-59017-191-2.

Reviews

  • John Beaufort (December 31, 1986). "Foote's `The Widow Claire' and Schmidt's `Black Sea Follies'". The Christian Science Monitor.
  • John Simon (January 12, 1987). "Dmitri and the Wolf". New York Magazine.

References

  1. ↑ Stephen Holden (February 21, 1999). "Paul Schmidt, 65, Translator, Poet and Actor". The New York Times.
  2. ↑ http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/paul-schmidt/
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2011-06-30.
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