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Erland Anderson is a
poet, critic, professor, and
translator. His books
include Between Darkness
and Darkness: Selected
Translation of Rolf
Aggestam (Prescott Street
Press, 1989), Harry
Martinson's book of
literary and nature essays
Views from a Tuff of Grass
(Green Integer Press,
2005), and his current
project, Ulf Peter
Hallberg's Europeiskt
Skraep (Symposion,
2009).
Jean Anderson is a Senior
Lecturer in French and
Director of the New
Zealand Centre for
Literary Translation / Te
Tumu Whakawhiti
Tuhinga 0 Aotearoa, based
at Victoria University of
Wellington. She has
translated several books
into English, including
some by Pacific
francophone writers, and
co-translated into French
five works by New
Zealand authors.
Anne Milano Appel's
translation of Stefano
Bortolussi's Head Above
Water was the winner of
the 2004 Northern
California Book Award for
Translation. Her
translation of Giulio
Leoni's Alosaic Crimes
was published in the US
and UK by Harcourt and
Harvill, in 2007. Most
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recently she translated
Elena Kostioukovitch's
Why Italians Love to Talk
about Food (Ferrar, Straus
& Giroux) and Claudio
Magris's Blindly (Penguin
Canada, 20 I0).
Nancy Arbuthnot teaches
poetry and creative writing
at the United States Naval
Academy. Her most recent
publications are Guiding
Lights: Monuments and
Memorials at the U. S.
Naval Academy, a
translation of Le Ph~lIn
Le's Gia Th6i Pllll'O'ng
Noo/From Where the Wind
Blows, and Mexico
Shining: Versions (dAztec
Songs.
Michele McKay
Aynesworth specializes in
translating Argentine
authors. Her translation of
Roberto Arlt's novel Mad
Toy was honored as a
finalist for the Soeurette­
Diehl Fraser Translation
Award. Editor of the
ATA's Beacons 10, in
2008 she published Blue
on Rye, a collection of her
poetry and blues songs.
She is currently translating
a French war journal by
Charles Rist.
Born in Baghdad, Iraq,
Susanne Ayoub lives and
works as an independent
author in Vienna, Austria.
A producer, playwright,
and director for radio and
TV, Ayoub writes and
stages plays for the group
TRIO, which she cofounded.
She was 1999
Writer-in-Residence at the
International Writer's
Colony Ledig House, New
York.
William Baer, a recent
Guggenheim fellow in
translation, is the author or
editor of fifteen books,
including Luis de Camoes:
Selected Sonnets
(Chicago). His other
books include four
collections of his own
poetry, most
recently "Bocage" and
Other Sonnets (Texas
Review Press), recipient of
the X.J. Kennedy Poetry
Prize.
David BaIl's recent
translations include
Abdourahman Waberi's In
the United States of Africa
(with Nicole Ball), Jarry's
Ubu the King (in The
Norton Anthology of
Drama), and selections
from James Sacre's poem
"A Silent Little Girl." He
has been president of
ALTA, winnerofMLA's
prize for literary
translation, and Professor
of French and
Comparative Literature at
Smith College.
Nicole Ball has translated
from French into Engl ish
Catherine Clement's The
Wemy Sons of Freud