Esther Allen

Esther Allen is an essayist and translator from Spanish and French. Among her translations are Horacio Verbitsky's The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior , Jose Marti: Selected Writings , and Jose Manuel Prieto's Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia . The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded her two translation fellowships, one of them for Zama , and the French government has named her a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She teaches at the Graduate Center of the...See more

Esther Allen is an essayist and translator from Spanish and French. Among her translations are Horacio Verbitsky's The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior , Jose Marti: Selected Writings , and Jose Manuel Prieto's Encyclopedia of a Life in Russia . The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded her two translation fellowships, one of them for Zama , and the French government has named her a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and at Baruch College. See less