Robert Hass

Roberet Hass is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley and collaborated for many years on the translation of poems by his Berkeley colleague Czesław Miłosz. Hass has received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for his poems, the National Book Critics Circle Award for his essays, and with Czesław Miłosz, a PEN Center Award in translation. His most recent book of poems is Summer Snow (Ecco Press). He worked on the translations in Poet in the New World with another Berkeley colleague, David Frick. (photo credit Miriam Berkley)