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Janet Hendrickson

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Janet Hendrickson

Janet Hendrickson translates from Spanish and Portuguese. Her experimental translation of Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language (New Directions, 2019), a seventeenth-century dictionary by Sebastián de Covarrubias, was longlisted for a PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She also translated The Future Is Not Ours (ed. Diego Trelles Paz, Open Letter, 2012), an anthology of new Latin American fiction. She holds a PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell and an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from the University of Iowa.

Articles by Janet Hendrickson

Translating the Dictionary
By Janet Hendrickson
In her poetry pamphlet Treasure of the Castilian or Spanish Language, published by New Directions, Janet Hendrickson experimentally translates Sebastián de Covarrubias's four-hundred-year-old Spanish…
A Classical Education
By Saša Stanišiç
And Mister Mozart didn't fasten his seatbelt either, the little monster tattled.
Translated from German by Saša Stanišiç & Janet Hendrickson