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Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World's First Author

Sophus Helle

First published 2023
Publisher Yale University Press
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
ISBN 9780300264173
Pages xxii+259

Notes

Price of book not on dust jacket; source is Amazon.com. Cover image is a Sumerian headdress in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Jacket design by Jenny Volvovski. Book design by Dustin Kilgore. With illustrations. Poems are new translations from Sumerian of the first known author (circa 2300 BCE), concerning the goddess Inana, the Sun God, and other mythological figures. The book has an introduction, the poems, essays, and appendices: chronology, glossary, notes, bibliography, acknowledgments, index.

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Awards

Year Award Category Status
2025 Mythopoeic Award Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (for Myth and Fantasy Studies) Nominee/Finalist