Sergio Waisman

Sergio Waisman has translated, among others, The Regal Lemon Tree by the Argentine Juan José Saer (Open Letter Books), The Underdogs: A Novel of the Mexican Revolution by Mariano Azuela (Penguin), three books by the Argentine Ricardo Piglia, and A Musical Education by Yaki Setton (Toad Press). In 2000 he received an NEA for his translation of Piglia’s The Absent City (Duke). He is also the author of Borges and Translation (Bucknell) and the novels Leaving (Hurricane), Irse (Bajo la luna) and El encargo (Mansalva). His translation of the Argentine Mirta Rosenberg’s El paisaje interior [Interior Landscape], in collaboration with Yaki Setton, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.