Edith Grossman
Edith Grossman was the acclaimed translator of Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Carlos Fuentes, Mayra Montero, and many other distinguished Spanish-language writers. Her translation of Don Quixote is widely considered a masterpiece. She was one of the first translators to insist upon having her name on a book's cover.
The recipient of numerous prizes for her work, Dr Grossman was awarded the Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation by PEN in 2006, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2008, and the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Civil Merit awarded by King Felipe VI of Spain.
“In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights reading from dusk till dawn and his days reading from sunrise to sunset, and so with too little sleep and too much reading his brains dried up, causing him to lose his mind.”
Edith Grossman