Dr. Mark Harman, professor of English and Modern Languages at Elizabethtown College, presents “Letters to a Young Poet: Rilke in Translation,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 24, in Bowers Writers House. Harman will read from and discuss his translation of these letters, which will be released by Harvard University Press, with a revealing introduction by the translator, on April 4.

Internationally known for his translations of Franz Kafka and other German-language authors, Harman has written extensively about modern German and Irish literature with particular emphasis on Joyce, Kafka, Beckett and Robert Walser. Harman’s translation of Franz Kafka’s novel, “The Castle,” won the Modern Language Association’s Lois Roth Award, and his rendering of Kafka’s first novel “Amerika: The Missing Person” (2008) also was critically well-received. A new deluxe illustrated edition of his “Castle” translation has just been released in London by The Folio Society.

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