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Ezra E. Fitz

Translator Ezra E. Fitz

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Ezra E. Fitz

United States

Ezra E. Fitz studied translation at Princeton University under the tutelage of James Irby, C.K. Williams, Jonathan Galassi, and Robert Fagles. Since then, he has focused his attention on current, post-Boom Latin American literature. Fitz has also written a novel of his own—his first—set in the New York neighborhoods of Morningside Heights and Crown Heights.

Articles by Ezra E. Fitz

Portrait of writer Felipe Restrepo Pombo

Photo copyright © R. Trejo

The Paradox of Unrestrained Power

By Ezra E. Fitz

It’s always struck me how many rich people in our countries end up hiring their own private armies: a very Colombian phenomenon.

The Discreet Strength of Mercedes Barcha

By Felipe Restrepo Pombo

Mercedes Barcha is best known for her marriage of nearly sixty years to Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez. Today, on what would have been her eighty-eighth birthday,…

Translated by Ezra E. Fitz

A Thundering Silence

By Felipe Restrepo Pombo

She stared at me in horror before hurrying off as fast as she could.

Translated from Spanish by Ezra E. Fitz

History of a Conversion: A Political Profile of Mario Vargas Llosa, Part Two

By Felipe Restrepo Pombo

I truly believe that Latin America is much better today than it was during my youth.

Translated by Ezra E. Fitz

History of a Conversion: A Political Profile of Mario Vargas Llosa, Part One

By Felipe Restrepo Pombo

There is a kind of insecurity that makes people want to return to a tribal idea: the illusion of a closed community that has never existed.

Translated by Ezra E. Fitz

from “Latitudes”

By Piedad Bonnett

We searched for the words. We sipped our tea / looking down the bitter well of the past . . .

Translated from Spanish by Ezra E. Fitz

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The Origins of the FARC: An Interview with Sergeant Pascuas

By Alfredo Molano

Renowned journalist Alfredo Molano interviews one of the founders of the FARC.

Translated from Spanish by Ezra E. Fitz

Lost Causes

By Oscar Collazos

Respect, I now understood, was nothing more than the fear of his reaction.

Translated from Spanish by Ezra E. Fitz

The Polish Boxer

By Eduardo Halfon

69752. That it was his phone number. That it was tattooed there, on his left forearm, so he wouldn’t forget it. That’s what my grandfather told me. And that’s what I grew up believing.…

Translated from Spanish by Ezra E. Fitz