Authors: Sergio Chejfec
The Dark (18 page)
About the Author
S
ergio Chejfec, originally from Argentina, has published numerous works of fiction, poetry, and essays. Among his grants and prizes, he has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in 2007 and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2000. He currently teaches in the Creative Writing in Spanish Program at NYU. His novels,
The Planets
(a finalist for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award in fiction) and
My Two Worlds
, are both available from Open Letter in English translation.
About the Translator
H
eather Cleary is a translator of fiction, criticism, and poetry, whose work has appeared in journals including
Two Lines
,
Habitus
,
The Coffin Factory
, and
New York Tyrant
, and in the edited volumes
Revealing Mexico
and
The Film Edge
. In 2005, she was awarded a Translation Fund grant from the PEN America Center for her work on Oliverio Girondo’s
Persuasioón de los días
. She is also the founding editor of the
Buenos Aires Review
. In addition to
The Dark
, she translated Chejfec’s
The Planets
.
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