Natasha Wimmer

Natasha Wimmer

Translation

Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolaño, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her most recent translations are The Twilight Zone and Voyager, by Nona Fernández, and You Dreamed of Empires, by Álvaro Enrigue. She began her career in publishing, at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and has also worked as a book review editor. Her reviews have appeared in The New York Times and The New York Review of Books. She teaches at Princeton University and Columbia University, and she is the recipient of a PEN Translation Award. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.