Benjamin Ivry

Benjamin Ivry is an American writer on the arts, broadcaster and translator.

Ivry is author of biographies of Francis Poulenc, Arthur Rimbaud, and Maurice Ravel, as well as a poetry collection, Paradise for the Portuguese Queen. The latter contains poems that first appeared in, among other places, The New Yorker, The London Review of Books, The Spectator, Ambit Magazine, and The New Republic.

He has also translated books from the French by authors like André Gide, Jules Verne, Witold Gombrowicz, and Balthus. Ivry has written about the arts for a variety of periodicals including The New York Observer, New York Sun, and New England Review, and has blogged for the Horizon section of Commentary online.

Selected Bibliography

Paradise for the Portuguese Queen: Poems by Benjamin Ivry, 1998, Orchises Press, ISBN 0914061690

Regatta: a Celebration of The Art of Oarsmanship, 1988, Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671699369

Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Benjamin Ivry with Renata Gorczynski and Clare Cavanagh, 2002, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, ISBN 0374220964
Magellania by Jules Verne, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2002, Welcome Rain Publishers, ISBN 1566491792
Judge Not by André Gide, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2003, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0252028449
Vanished Splendors, a Memoir by Balthus, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2003, Ecco Press, ISBN 006621260X
Mon Docteur, Le Vin (My Doctor, Wine) by Gaston Derys with Watercolors by Raoul Dufy, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2003, Yale University Press, ISBN 0300101333
A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes, by Witold Gombrowicz, translated by Benjamin Ivry, 2007, Yale University Press, ISBN 030012368X