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Diane Rayor [1]

Listed as: 
Translator
Public address: 
Grand Rapids, MI
Michigan US
Email: 
rayord@gvsu.edu
Bio: 

Diane J. Rayor, Professor Emerita of Classics at Grand Valley State University/Michigan, translates Greek poetry and drama, including Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works (2023, audio recording freely available: cambridge.org/sappho); Homeric Hymns (2nd ed. 2014); Euripides’ Medea (2013); Sophocles’ Antigone (2011); Sappho’s Lyre: Archaic Lyric and Women Poets of Ancient Greece (1991); and Callimachus (with S. Lombardo, 1988). Her translations of Euripides’ Helen and Hecuba, under contract with Cambridge, will join Medea and Antigone soon. Her tragedy translations have been performed in Australia, Canada, Singapore, UK, and USA. In her thirtieth year of teaching at GVSU she retired from the Classics Department that she co-founded.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
No
Favorite authors: 
Harryette Mullen, Rebeca Castellanos, Elizabeth Horan.
Born in: 
Raised in: 
Denver, CO
Colorado
Prizes won: 
  • Roe Green Visiting Theatre Artist for 2018, at the University of Colorado, Boulder: Residency Fall 2018 for the production of Euripides’ Hecuba.https://cupresents.org/event/1654/cu-the... [2]
  • Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for translating Euripides’ Helen ($35,000) July 2016-June 2017. http://lclf.harvard.edu/ [3]
    • Staged 2017: March 24-April 2, GVSU (director Karen Libman)
  • Internal Grant: Interdisciplinary Research Initiative for “Translating Greek Drama for the Stage” ($10,000) November 1, 2011-October 31, 2012. Euripides' Medea Staged 2012
  • Columbia University Translation Center Merit Award for Sappho's Lyre, 1992.

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/diane_rayor [2] https://cupresents.org/event/1654/cu-theatre-dance/hecuba/ [3] http://lclf.harvard.edu/