Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic

Danish translator and cultural historian Sophus Helle specializes in the literature of ancient Iraq. He holds a PhD in comparative literature from Aarhus University and an MA in Assyriology from the University of Copenhagen, and has been a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. His English translation Gilgamesh: A New Translation of the Ancient Epic (Yale University Press, 2021), made directly from the Akkadian, was reviewed in the New York Review of Books and the Boston Globe. His translation The Complete Poems of Enheduana, the World's First Author (Yale University Press, 2023) presented the Sumerian high priestess to English-speaking readers. He won the European Young Researcher Award in 2020 and is managing editor of the Library of Babylonian Literature.