BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2014 – 2015

Esther Allen

For a biography of José Martí

Esther Allen is Associate Professor of Modern Languages at Baruch College, CUNY, where her research focuses on translation, 19th and 20th century Latin American and French literature, and issues in anglophone globalization. She has been a fellow of the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, and she is co-founder of the PEN/Heim Translation Fund and the PEN World Voices festival. She is co-editor of In Translation: Translators on their Work and What It Means, and she has translated works by Javier Marías, José Manuel Prieto, and many others. As a Leon Levy fellow she worked on a biography of José Martí, the Cuban writer and political activist whose Selected Writings she edited, translated, and annotated for Penguin Classics.