Eliot Weinberger (b. February 6, 1949) is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. Born in New York City where he still lives, Weinberger is the recipient of the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle (2000), the highest award the Mexican government bestows on foreign nationals. Weinberger earned the citation by virtue of his translations into English of the work of Octavio Paz, the noted Mexican and Nobel Prize winning poet. So far, Weinberger has been Paz's primary translator into English. February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... An essayist is an author who writes compositions which can be about any particular subject. ... An Editor is a person who prepares text—typically language, but also images and sounds—for publication by correcting, condensing, or otherwise modifying it. ... Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—the target text, also called the translation. ... Nickname: Big Apple; City that never Sleeps; Gotham Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Medal of the Order The Order of the Aztec Eagle (Spanish: Orden del Águila Azteca) is the highest decoration awarded to foreigners in Mexico. ... Octavio Paz Nobel Prize photo Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature. ... Nobel Prize medal. ...

Weinberger discovered the writings of Octavio Paz as a youngster of thirteen, and by his late teens was working closely with the poet on English translations of Paz's work. Some of the significant translations Weinberger has undertaken include Collected Poems, published in 1987, and In the Light of India and A Tale of Two Gardens, both released in 1997. According to Rafael H. Mojica in World Literature Today, See also: 1996 in literature, other events of 1997, 1998 in literature, list of years in literature. ...

a remarkable effect that not seldom obtains in Weinberger's work is the rendering of the rhythmic values of the Spanish original in the English version.... Weinberger has performed a commendable service to all readers of Mexican poetry in English.

Among his other recognitions and awards, Weinberger is the first recipient of Gregory Kolovakos Award for promotion of Latin American literature in the U.S., 1992. In 1999 Weinberger accepted the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism on behalf of Jorge Luis Borges. It was Weinberger's edited volume of Borges's Selected Nonfictions that had won the prestigious award.^[1] Image File history File links Cquote1. ... Image File history File links Cquote2. ... The Gregory Kolovakos Award is a literary award given every three years by PEN American Center (the U.S. chapter of International PEN) to a U.S. literary translator, editor, or critic whose work, in meeting the challenge of cultural difference, extends Gregory Kolovakoss commitment to the richness of... Latin American literature refers to the literature of Latin America. ... See also: 1991 in literature, other events of 1992, 1993 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1998 in literature, other events of 1999, 2000 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American association of approximately seven hundred book reviewers. ... Jorge Luis Borges (August 24, 1899 – June 14, 1986), was an Argentine writer who is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century. ...

Selected bibliography

Writings by the author

• Works on Paper (essays), New Directions (New York, NY), 1986.
• (With Octavio Paz) Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei (criticism), Moyer-Bell (Wakefield, RI), 1987.
• Outside Stories (essays), New Directions (New York, NY), 1992.
• (Editor) Una antologia de la poesia norteamericana desde 1950, Ediciones del Equilibrista (Mexico), 1992.
• (Editor) American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders, Marsilio Publishing, 1993.
• Written Reaction: Poetics, Politics, Polemics (essays), Marsilio Publishing, 1996.
• Karmic Traces (essays), New Directions (New York, NY), 2000.
• (Editor) The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry, New Directions (New York, NY), 2003

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Editor and translator

• Octavio Paz, Eagle or Sun?, October House, 1970, revised edition, New Directions (New York, NY), 1976.
• Octavio Paz, A Draft of Shadows, New Directions (New York, NY), 1980.
• Homero Aridjis, Exaltation of Light, Boa Editions (Brockport, NY), 1981.
• Octavio Paz, Selected Poems, New Directions (New York, NY), 1984.
• Jorge Luis Borges, Seven Nights, New Directions (New York, NY), 1984.
• Octavio Paz, The Collected Poems 1957-1987, New Directions (New York, NY), 1987, revised edition, 1991.
• Vicente Huidobro, Altazor, Graywolf (Port Townsend, WA), 1988.
• Octavio Paz, A Tree Within, New Directions (New York, NY), 1988.
• Octavio Paz, Sunstone, New Directions (New York, NY), 1991.
• Cecilia Vicuna, Unravelling Words and the Weaving of Water, Graywolf (Port Townsend, WA), 1992.
• Xavier Villaurrutia, Nostalgia for Death, Copper Canyon Press (Port Townsend, WA), 1993.
• Octavio Paz, In Light of India, Harcourt Brace (New York, NY), 1997.
• Octavio Paz, A Tale of Two Gardens, New Directions (New York, NY), 1997.
• Octavio Paz, An Erotic Beyond: Sade, 1998.
• (With Esther Allen and Suzanne Jille Levine; and editor) Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions, Viking (New York, NY), 1999.
• (With Iona Man-Cheong) Bei Dao, Unlock, New Directions (New York, NY), 2000.

An independent publisher for 70 years, New Directions was founded when president and publisher James Laughlin issued the first New Directions anthology in 1936. ... Homero Aridjis was born in Contepec, Michoacan, Mexico, on April 6, 1940, to a Greek father and Mexican mother, he was the youngest of five brothers. ... Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández (January 10, 1893 – January 2, 1948) was a Chilean poet born to an aristocratic family. ... Xavier Villaurrutia in an undated photograph Xavier Villaurrutia (1903-1950) was a Mexican poet and playwright, whose most famous works are the short theatrical dramas, called Autos profanos, compiled in the work Poesía y teatro completos published in 1953. ... Sade can mean: Sade (movie) starring French actor Daniel Auteuil. ... Bei Dao (Northern Island) is another name for Zhifu Island. ...

Further reading

• Americas (English Edition), August, 1998, Barbara Mujica, review of A Tale of Two Gardens: Poems from India, 1952-1995, p. 60; January, 2000, Barbara Mujica, review of Selected Non-Fictions, p. 60.
• Boston Review, December, 2000/January, 2001, John Palattella, review of Karmic Traces, pp. 56-57.
• Contemporary Authors, (Thomson Gale, 2004)
• New York Times, October 6, 1999, Richard Bernstein, "So Close, Borges's Worlds of Reality and Invention."
• New York Times Book Review, March 30, 1997, Raleigh Trevelyan, "One Nation under Many Gods, " p. 25; April 19, 1998, Laura Jamison, review of An Erotic Beyond: Sade, p. 25.
• World Literature Today, winter, 1995, Rafael H. Mojica, review of Nostalgia for Death / Hieroglyphs of Desire: A Critical Study of Villaurrutia, p. 111.

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References

1. ^ In her Americas review of the title, Barbara Mujica noted that the work "has made available to the English-language reader 161 pieces of Borges's most significant non-fiction pieces, most of it for the first time. Two-thirds of the writing included in this volume has never been translated before. The rest has been newly translated for this edition." Mujica deemed the resulting work "exquisitely translated."

External links

• Eliot Weinberger exhibit at the Academy of American Poets website
• What I heard about Iraq in 2005 Weinberger in the London Review of Books