Edith Grossman insisted that her name appear on the covers of books she translated, including with that of Cervantes.

 

Dr. Grossman’s translation of “Don Quixote” — with her name on the cover alongside that of Cervantes — became widely admired as the definitive English version.

Edith Grossman, Who Elevated the Art of Translation, Dies at 87

“You are my voice in English,” Gabriel García Márquez told her. She insisted that her name appear on the covers of books she translated, including with that of Cervantes.

Edith Grossman, whose acclaimed translations of “Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel García Márquez and “Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes raised the profile of the often-overlooked role of the translator, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 87.

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林語堂夫婦。談《愛在瘟疫蔓延時》 的一段/幾處翻譯，class distinctions (Parish Cafe 教區咖啡館 VS Social Club)社會地位、俱樂部規則.......：Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

  

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“Though there have been many valuable translations of ‘Don Quixote,’” the critic Harold Bloom wrote in an introduction, “I would commend Edith Grossman’s version for the extraordinarily high quality of her prose.”