托马斯·温茨洛瓦

托马斯·温茨洛瓦(Tomas Venclova)，1937年生，立陶宛诗人，学者，翻译家。前苏联桂冠诗人的叛逆之子，地下诗歌领军人物，流亡美国。曾与波兰诗人米沃什和俄罗斯诗人布罗茨基结为好友，“布罗茨基圈”最后一位在世诗人。1977～1980 年在伯克利加州大学执教，1985 年在耶鲁大学获文学博士，并留校任教至今。第一本英译诗集《冬日对话》1997 年出版，布罗茨基在序言中大赞其诗中表现出的罕见的勇气和凝聚的力度，这本诗集奠定了他在欧美文学中的地位。温茨洛瓦的魅力和影响力远远超出了诗歌范围，除了随笔、诗歌翻译和文学评论之外，他的时政批评在欧美具有相当大的感召力。

Tomas Venclova is a Lithuanian poet, prose writer, scholar, philologist and translator of literature. He is one of the five founding members of the Lithuanian Helsinki Group. In 1977, following his dissident activities, he was forced to emigrate and was deprived of his Soviet citizenship. Since 1980, he has taught Russian and Polish literature at Yale University. Considered a major figure in world literature, he has received many awards, including the Prize of Two Nations, and The Person of Tolerance of the Year Award from the Sugihara Foundation, among other honors.