during a visit to Mexico that lasted thirty–three years, he learned the translator’s craft and dealt with material in practically any genre.  On returning to his native land, Manhattan, he devoted himself mainly to literature.  His enormous body of translation covers a myriad of genres including the works of authors representing most of the Latin American countries and Spain.  A dozen of the more familiar names being: Caarpentier, Cardoza y Aragón, Eloy Martínez, Fuentes, García Márquez , Galeano, Ibagüengoitia, Sábato, B. Traven, Valenzuela, Vagas Llosa, and Valle–Inclán.

is a Guatemalan–born writer and translator.  He is the author of the novel Life in the Damn Tropics (Wisconsin University Press, 2004).  His most recent translations are Rigoberta Menchú’s Secret Legacy (2008), The Honey Jar (2006) and The Girl from Chimel (2005) for Groundwood Press.  Other translations include The Love You Promised Me (Curbstone Press, 1999) and The Popol Vuh, version by Victor Montejo (Groundwood, 1999).  He has also translated Roque Dalton, Mario Benedetti, Sergio Ramírez, Luisa Valenzuela, Vicente Aleixandre, and Enrique Lihn.  He edited and co–translated Nicanor Parra’s Antipoems: New and Selected (New Directions, 1985).