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Heather Cleary

Portrait of translator Heather Cleary

Contributor

Heather Cleary

Heather Cleary’s translations include Betina González’s American Delirium, Roque Larraquy’s Comemadre (nominee, National Book Award 2018), and Sergio Chejfec’s The Planets (finalist, BTBA 2013) and The Dark (nominee, National Translation Award 2014). A member of the Cedilla & Co.

Articles by Heather Cleary

Close Listening: A Playlist for “American Delirium”

By Heather Cleary

Heather Cleary's translation of American Delirium, the first novel by Argentine author Betina González to appear in English, was recently published by Henry Holt. In the essay below, Cleary…

The Most Dangerous Dream of All—A Multilingual Most Exquisite Corpse Story

By Sergio Chejfec, Maria Cabrera, Basma Abdel Aziz & Petra Hůlová

At PEN America’s Lit Crawl Manhattan 2018, Words Without Borders and SLICE Literary partnered to present a multilingual exquisite corpse, a story authored by four international…

Translated by Heather Cleary, Mary Ann Newman, Elisabeth Jaquette & Alex Zucker

A Trip to the Cemetery

By Sergio Chejfec

One shouldn’t expect more from novelists than disjointed emanations without guaranteed outcomes.

Translated from Spanish by Heather Cleary

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