Esther Allen

Esther Allen is a professor at City University of New York. Her translation of Argentine novelist Antonio Di Benedetto's 1956 novel Zama (NYRB Classics, 2016) won the National Translation Award. With support from a Guggenheim Fellowship, she has since translated Di Benedetto's The Silentiary (1964) and The Suicides (1969). She is working on a biography of José Martí.