Ilan Stavans
Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico City and is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words , Spanglish , Dictionary Days , The Disappearance , and A Critic's Journey . He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature , the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories , The Poetry of Pablo Neruda , among dozens of other volumes. He is the recipient of...See more
Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico City and is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. His books include On Borrowed Words , Spanglish , Dictionary Days , The Disappearance , and A Critic's Journey . He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature , the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories , The Poetry of Pablo Neruda , among dozens of other volumes. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile's Presidential Medal, the International Latino Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award. Stavans's work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen. A cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, Chicago, Oxford, and Dublin, he is the host of the NPR podcast "In Contrast." See less
