James S. Holmes

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James S. Holmes
James Stratton Holmes
James S. Holmes in 1981
Born	2 May 1924 Iowa, United States
Died	6 November 1986 Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Other names	Jim Holmes Jacob Lowland
Citizenship	American
Occupation(s)	Poet, translator, translation scholar
Partner	Hans van Marle
Awards	Martinus Nijhoff Award
Academic work
Discipline	Translation Studies
Notable works	The name and nature of translation studies (1975)

James Stratton Holmes (2 May 1924 – 6 November 1986) was an American-Dutch poet, translator, and translation scholar.^[1] He sometimes published his work using his real name James S. Holmes, and other times the pen names Jim Holmes and Jacob Lowland. In 1956 he was the first non-Dutch translator to receive the prestigious Martinus Nijhoff Award, the most important recognition given to translators of creative texts from or into Dutch.