Peter Cole’s most recent book of poems is The Invention of Influence. His many volumes of translation include The Poetry of Kabbalah: Mystical Verse from the Jewish Tradition and The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492, as well as poetry and fiction by Aharon Shabtai, Taha Muhammad Ali, Yoel Hoffmann, and others. Cole has received numerous honors for his work, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry, the PEN Translation Award for Poetry, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2007. He divides his time between Jerusalem and New Haven, Connecticut.
彼得‧科爾，最近發表的詩集為《影響的發明》（2014），譯作包括《卡巴拉詩歌：猶太傳統的神秘詩歌》、《詩之夢：西班牙的希伯來文詩歌（950–1492）》，以及阿赫朗‧沙布泰、塔哈‧穆罕穆德‧阿里、尤爾‧霍夫曼等人的文學作品。科爾曾獲「國家藝術獎金」、「古根漢基金會獎」、「國家猶太圖書獎（詩歌類）」、「筆會翻譯獎（詩歌類）」、「美國藝文學會文學獎」、「麥克阿瑟獎」等。科爾常年往返於耶路撒冷和美國康納狄克州紐黑文城。