Sergio Waisman

Sergio Waisman has translated, among others, The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela (Penguin), three books by Ricardo Piglia, Juan José Saer’s The Regal Lemon Tree (Open Letter Books), and three titles for Oxford’s Library of Latin Aerica. In 2000 he received an NEA Translation Fellowship Award for his work on Piglia’s The Absent City (Duke). He is also the author of Borges and Translation (Bucknell), and the novels Irse (Bajo la luna) and El encargo (Mansalva). He is a Professor of Spanish and Latin American Literatures at The George Washington University.