Authors / Mark Schafer

Mark Schafer is an award-winning translator and visual artist and a senior lecturer in Spanish at UMass Boston. He has translated poetry by David Huerta and Gloria Gervitz and fiction by Belén Gopegui, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, and Virgilio Piñera, among many others. He has been translating Migraciones into English since 1991.

Poetry

From Migrations

“and there was something beloved in the days and in the memory of the days / and it took me my whole life to wake up”

Gloria Gervitz December 17, 2021