for Prose. With Susan Bernofsky, she edited
In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means. She also edited
To Be Translated or Not To Be (Institut Ramon Llull, 2007), the PEN International report on translation and globalization. A former fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, she was named a Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres by the French government for her work promoting a culture of translation in English. She teaches at the City University of New York Graduate Center and at Baruch College, CUNY, where she runs the
Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. Her website is
estherallen.com.
