Event Highlights: Alicia Borinsky with Robert Croll | Latin American Studies

Event Highlights: Alicia Borinsky with Robert Croll

This conversation about literature and translation between Alicia Borinsky, Professor of Spanish at Boston University and Robert Croll – centered around Croll’s recently published translation of Hebe Uhart’s Animales (Animals) for Archipelago Books – took place on Tuesday, November 2, 2021.

Hebe Uhart (1936-2018) is one of Argentina’s most celebrated contemporary writers. Robert Croll is a writer, translator, and editor originally from Asheville, North Carolina. He graduated from Amherst College in 2016 with a degree in Architectural Studies and Spanish and currently lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts. As a translator, his focus is on contemporary Latin American literature; he has worked on texts by such authors as Ricardo Piglia, Hebe Uhart, Julio Cortázar, Gustavo Roldán, Javier Sinay, and Juan Carlos Onetti.

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