BIOGRAPHY
Robert Fagles
Translator Robert Fagles is Princeton's Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, and member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He received a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for his translation of The Odyssey and several awards for his translation of The Iliad, including the 1991 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award by the Academy of American Poets. His acclaimed translations also include Sophocles' Three Theban Plays and Aeschylus's The Oresteia, nominated for a National Book Award in 1977.