Louis Iribarne

Louis Michael Iribarne (September 1940 - 5 December 2020) , of Basque extraction, was a Canadian translator of Polish literature into English, including works by Czesław Miłosz, Witold Gombrowicz, Stanisław Lem, Bruno Schulz, and Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz.

In the mid-1960s, at the University of California, Berkeley, he studied Polish literature with 1980 Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, participating in seminars on translation of Polish poetry.

Subsequently he taught Polish and Russian literature at the University of Toronto, retiring in 1998.