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Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Gregory Rabassa
Translator -- via the New York Times. His beautiful translations from the Spanish helped ignite and sustain the magic realism movement. Cortazar, Marquez, Llosa, and Amado are just a few of the authors we wouldn't enjoy were it not for Rabassa. My particular favorite -- his translation of Aguilera-Malta's little-known but brilliant "Seven Serpents and Seven Moons."
