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Daniel Borzutzky is a Chicago-based poet and translator. His collection The Performance of Becoming Human won the 2016 National Book Award.[4] The son of Chilean immigrants, Borzutzky's work often addresses immigration, worker exploitation, political corruption, and economic disparity.[5]

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Daniel Borzutzky
Born	1974 (age 47–48) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nationality	Chilean-American[1]
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	University of Pittsburgh (B.A.)[2] School of the Art Institute of Chicago (M.F.A.)[3]
Genre	Poetry
Notable works	The Performance of Becoming Human
Notable awards	National Book Award

He received a BA from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000.[6]

Borzutzky has received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.[7] He is an Associate Professor of English and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago.[8]

Alongside his writing, Borzutzky is also known for his work as a translator. He received the 2017 American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award for his translation of Galo Ghigliotto [es]’s Valdivia (Co-im-press, 2016) and a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of The Country of Planks (Action Books, 2015) by the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita.[9]

Works

Poetry

Full-length collections

• Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018. Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press. 2021. ISBN 9781566896054.
• Lake Michigan, University of Pittsburgh Press. 2018. ISBN 9780822965220, OCLC 1007923836
• The Performance of Becoming Human Brooklyn, N.Y.: Brooklyn Arts Press. 2016. ISBN 9781936767465, OCLC 994060924[10][11]
• In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy Brooklyn, N.Y.: Nightboat Books. 2015. ISBN 9781937658335, OCLC 894937620
• The Book of Interfering Bodies Brooklyn, N.Y.: Nightboat Books. 2011. ISBN 9780984459827, OCLC 838471857
• The Ecstasy of Capitulation Buffalo, N.Y.: Blaze Vox Books. 2007. ISBN 9781934289242, OCLC 105635040

Chapbooks

• Bedtime Stories for the End of the World Bloof Books, 2014. OCLC 906944426
• Data Bodies (Holon, 2013)
• Failure in the imagination, Milwaukee, WI: Bronze Skull Press, 2007. OCLC 181911375

Poetry/essay

• Memories of my Overdevelopment, Chicago: Kenning Editions, 2015. OCLC 944444558
• Arbitrary tales, Triple Press: 2005. ISBN 9780976659310, OCLC 166144754

Translations

• Galo Ghigliotto, Valdivia (co•im•press, 2016)
• Raúl Zurita, The Country of Planks (Action Books, 2015)
• Raúl Zurita, Song for his Disappeared Love (Action Books, 2010)
• Jaime Luis Huenún [es], Port Trakl (Action Books, 2008)

Honors

• National Book Award, The Performance of Becoming Human (2016)
• American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award for Poetry (2017)
• PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant, Raúl Zurita's El País de Tablas (The Country of Planks) (2013)
• National Endowment for the Arts Grant (2013)
• Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist, Lake Michigan (2019)

References

External links

• Profile at the National Book Foundation website
• Profile at Poetry Foundation website

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