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Heather Cleary

Heather Cleary
Heather Cleary’s translations include Roque Larraquy’s (nom. National Book Award), Sergio Chejfec’s The Planets (fin. BTBA) and The Dark (nom. National Translation Award), and a selection of Oliverio Girondo’s poetry for New Directions. She is a member of the Cedilla & Co. translation collective and co-founded the digital, bilingual Buenos Aires Review. She also writes on literature in translation for Book Marks, among other publications, and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.


Playing With Words: Heather Cleary on the Pleasures of Translating the Unfamiliar

“We often learn the most from texts (and friends) with which we have little in common.”
December 14, 2023  By Heather Cleary
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In Memoriam: Sergio Chejfec

Translator Heather Cleary Remembers Her Friend, the Argentinean Writer
May 5, 2022  By Heather Cleary
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The Secret Bookstores of Buenos Aires

Visiting the City's Invisible Bookshops, Behind Closed Doors
April 28, 2016  By Heather Cleary
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Beyond Borges: 5 Argentine Writers You Should Know

Of Clones, Cruelty, and “Dark, Startling Power”
September 9, 2015  By Heather Cleary
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