Ivar Ivask papers

December 17, 1927 Riga, Latvia – September 23, 1992 Fountainstown, Ireland Estonian poet and literary scholar. Emigrated from Estonia to Germany in 1944. Graduated from Wiesbaden Gymnasium in Germany in 1946, 1946-1949 studied comparative literary science and art history in Marburg University, Germany. From 1949 onwards lived in the USA. 1950 MA degree from University of Minnesota, master's thesis "Gottfried Benn als Lyriker". PhD From University if Minnesota 1953, doctoral thesis "Hugo von Hofmannsthal als Kritiker der deutschen Literatur". 1952-1957 St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, lecturer of German language and literature. 1958-1967 St. Olaf College head of department in the department of German language and literature. 1954-1956 served in the U.S Army Medical Corps. From 1967 Ivask worked as a professor of Modern languages and literatures in the University of Oklahoma, writing mainly on Spanish language literature.From 1967 to 1991 he was the editor-in-chief of the international literary quarterly World Literature Today (formerly Books Abroad) and directed its two affiliated biennial literary programs, the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1970- ) and the Puterbaugh Conferences on Writers of the French-Speaking and Hispanic World (1968- ), later known as Puterbaugh Conference on World Literature. From 1991 lived in Ireland.He was married to Latvian poet and translator Astrid Ivask (married 26.02.1949 in Marburg).Father: Vidrik Ivask (1892-1975)Mother: Ilze Marija (n. Gūters; 1895-1937)Stepmother: Herta JākobsoneSister: Sulamite (1923-1998)Half-brother: Ernst Fishers (1915-1994)Half-sister: Hilli