Ivar Ivask

Ivar Ivask was born in Riga on 17 December 1927, to an Estonian father and a Latvian mother; German was spoken at home. He grew up between Riga and his father's farm at Rõngu, fled to Germany in 1944, spent two years in displaced persons camps, then studied German literature, comparative literature and art history in Marburg. A professor at the University of Oklahoma, he edited from 1967 to 1991 the journal Books Abroad, which became World Literature Today, and founded the Neustadt Prize. He died on 23 September 1992 in Fountainstown, Ireland.

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• PoetryThe Baltic ElegiesIvar Ivask · 1987Literature