Margaret Carson

Margaret Carson translates fiction, poetry, essays and drama from the Spanish. Her translations include Sergio Chejfec’s My Two Worlds (Open Letter, 2011), Mercedes Roffé’s Theory of Colors (belladonna* books, 2005) and José Tomás de Cuéllar’s The Magic Lantern (Oxford University Press, 2000). Other translations have appeared in Almost Island, Aufgabe, EOAGH, e-misférica, BOMB, Music and Literature, Asymptote and Words Without Borders. She is currently translating the dream journal and other writings by the Spanish surrealist artist Remedios Varo (forthcoming, Wakefield Press). A former cochair of the PEN Translation Committee, she teaches at City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College.


Articles by Margaret Carson

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Monday August 29

Women in Translation Month: Women Translators Who Have Won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

In the final two posts of the series, we have expanded the concept to feature the books translated by women that have won the PEN Translation Prize and (in today’s post) the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

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Thursday August 25

Women in Translation Month: Books Translated by Women That Have Won the PEN Translation Prize

In the final two posts of the series, we expand the concept to feature the books translated by women that have won the PEN Translation Prize and the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.

Wednesday May 11

Margaret Carson’s Tribute to Edith Grossman

This tribute was written by Margaret Carson. She is the translator of Sergio Chejfec’s My Two Worlds et al., and the former co-chair of PEN America Translation Committee.