Alastair Reid

Alastair Reid received the PEN Kolovakos Award for Translation in 2001, along with Gregory Rabassa. (January 2004)

From the Review

January 15, 2004: You Can Go Home Again

Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez,translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

November 29, 2001: When the Era Was an Era

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman

May 6, 1999: Of Heaven and Hell (poem)

October 9, 1997: Report from an Undeclared War

News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Edith Grossman

February 2, 1995: Talking Cuba

Mea Cuba by Guillermo Cabrera Infante. translated by Kenneth Hall with the author

September 22, 1994: Sudden Death

June 23, 1994: Urn Burial

November 18, 1993: Troublemaker

Before Night Falls by Reinaldo Arenas, translated by Dolores M. Koch

El Central translated by Anthony Kerrigan

The Ill-fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando translated by Andrew Hurley

Graveyard of the Angels translated by Alfred MacAdam

Old Rosa and The Brightest Star translated by Ann Tashi Slater, translated by Andrew Hurley

The Doorman translated by Dolores M. Koch

Singing From The Well translated by Andrew Hurley

The Palace of the White Skunks translated by Andrew Hurley

Farewell to the Sea translated by Andrew Hurley

July 18, 1991: Puerta De Golpe, Cuba (poem)

November 5, 1981: Climbing Macchu Picchu

Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu by John Felstiner

November 6, 1980: In Memoriam, Amada

August 14, 1980: Two Poems by Heberto Padilla (poem)

October 25, 1979: Three Poems by Heberto Padilla (poem)

January 25, 1979: A History of Night (poem)

January 25, 1979: In Borges's Labyrinth

Jorge Luis Borges, A Literary Biography by Emir Rodriguez Monegal

November 23, 1978: Two Poems by Heberto Padilla (poem)

November 24, 1977: Four Poems by Jorge Luis Borges (poem)

October 3, 1974: Where Can Guillermina Be? (poem)

From New York Review Books

The Winners [Cortázar] creates a language and a rhythm and sensuality as mysterious and terrible as Melville's but all in his own voice.... The Winners is a novel of ideas that challenges and disturbs the reader and enlarges one's sense of the intricate

Books by Alastair Reid

Oases: Poems and Prose (1997)
An Alastair Reid Reader: Selected Prose and Poetry (1994)
Whereabouts: Notes on Being a Foreigner (1987)
Weathering: Poems and Translations (1978)