Coffin Lyn

Coffin Lyn (b. November 12, 1943, New York), American writer, translator. Master of Arts. Honorary Doctor of the World Academy of Arts and Culture (WAAC / UNICEF). She studied at the Universities of Michigan and Columbia. She writes poems, short stories, and plays. Coffin has many years of successful translation experience. In 2013, a bilingual collection of Coffin's translations of Georgian poetry was published in the USA – Georgian Poetry: Rustaveli to Galaktion, which includes poems by Rustaveli, A. Chavchavadze, G. Orbeliani, N. Baratashvili, G. Tabidze, and others. She has translated works by contemporary Georgian writers – D. Barbakadze, G. Kekelidze, G. Alkhazishvili, and Z. Abzianidze. Coffin's translation of Shota Rustaveli's poem The Knight in the Panther's Skin [Vepkhistkaosani] into English is the first poetic translation executed in 16-syllable shairi meter (in 2016, she was awarded the "Saba" literary prize).

In 2012, Coffin's poems translated into Georgian by G. Jokhadze were published in Tbilisi.

M. Tushishvili