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Donald A. Yates

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Donald A. Yates

Donald A. Yates is professor emeritus of Spanish American literature at Michigan State University (East Lansing). He is the translator of both novels and short stories by many Spanish American authors, including Labyrinths: Selected Writings of Jorge Luis Borges, edited and translated with James Irby (New Directions, 1962), and Adolfo Bioy Casares's celebrated novel Diary of the War of the Pig (McGraw-Hill, 1972). Labyrinths was the first collection of Borges's work to appear in English. Yates has published his own fiction, poetry, articles, and book reviews, as well as translations, in many periodicals, including the Atlantic, Holiday, the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Washington Post.  He was a Fulbright Scholar and visiting lecturer in Argentina in 1962–63,  1964–65, 1967–68, and 1970, and, with the support of a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship, is preparing a memoir/biography of Borges drawn from his long relationship with the Argentine writers. 

Articles by Donald A. Yates

The Key
By Edgar Brau
“Have you ever seen a human body decompose before? No? Well, you will now.”
Translated from Spanish by Donald A. Yates
The Two Coins
By Juan José Delaney
Countless small spiders were spreading out over his skin in a kind of exotic dance.
Translated from Spanish by Donald A. Yates
Two Common Misconceptions
By Fernando Sorrentino
The most casual observation would seem to suggest, beyond a doubt, that the basilisk species is on its way to extinction.
Translated from Spanish by Donald A. Yates