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Edgar Brau

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Edgar Brau

Edgar Brau was born in Argentina. He worked as an actor, a stage director, a painter of icons, and a photographer before devoting himself to writing literature. He published his first book, The Poem and Other Stories, in 1992, and has published several novels, books of poems, and short-story collections. In 2000 the National Endowment for the Arts awarded Donald A. Yates, the first American translator of Jorge Luis Borges, a grant to translate all of Brau's prose. Brau's first collection of works in English, Casablanca and other Stories, was published in 2006.  His latest works are The Golem Project (a long fantastic story) and the play Faustus. He lives in Buenos Aires. His web page is www.edgarbrau.com.ar.

Articles by Edgar Brau

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
Woodstock
By Edgar Brau
Look: it happened here. A sense of surfeit grew / from the unfeeling past-
Translated from Spanish by Michele McKay Aynesworth