Edith Grossman is an award-winning translator of poetry and prose by leading contemporary Spanish-language writers, including Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Mayra Montero, Augusto Monterroso, Jaime Manrique, Julián Ríos, and, of course, Álvaro Mutis. Her translation of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote of La Mancha is one of the finest in the English language and in 2006 she was awarded the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation. She lives in New York City.
