Rika Lesser (born 1953Brooklyn, New York) is an Americanpoet, and is atranslator ofSwedish andGerman literary works.

Lesser earned her bachelor's degree atYale University in 1974. She studied at theUniversity of Gothenburg in Sweden from 1974 to 1975 and received herMFA fromColumbia University in 1977.^[1] She has produced four collections of her own poetry, includingEtruscan Things (1983), and her prose translations includeA Living Soul byP. C. Jersild andSiddhartha byHermann Hesse.

In 1982, she was awarded theLandon Poetry Translation Prize from theAcademy of American Poets, and received the Poetry Translation Prize of theSwedish Academy in 1996 and in 2003.

• Growing back: poems, 1972-1992. University of South Carolina Press. 1997.ISBN 978-1-57003-233-2.
• All we need of hell: poems. University of North Texas Press. 1995.ISBN 978-0-929398-92-1.
• Etruscan things: poems. G. Braziller. 1983.ISBN 978-0-8076-1058-9.
• Questions of Love: New and Selected Poems. Sheep Meadow Press. 2008.ISBN 978-1-9313-5760-9.

• Gunnar Ekelöf (1980).Guide to the Underworld. Translator Rika Lesser. University of Massachusetts Press.ISBN 978-0-87023-306-7.
• Hansel and Gretel (1984) (Illustrated byPaul O. Zelinsky)
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1986).Between Roots-selected Poems Rendered from German. Translator Rika Lesser. s.n.
• Sigrid Heuck (1988).The Hideout / Sigrid Heuck. Translator Rika Lesser. Douglas & McIntyre, Limited.ISBN 978-0-88833-266-0.
• Sonnevi, Goran (February 22, 1993).A Child Is Not a Knife: Selected Poems of Goran Sonnevi. tr. & ed.: Lesser, Rika. Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0-691-01543-9. RetrievedSeptember 21, 2012.

• "Lesser, Rika". PEN American Center. Archived fromthe original on 2007-08-07. Retrieved2007-11-11.

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