George Henson
George Henson is a literary translator and a 2021-2023 Tulsa Artist Fellow. His translations include Cervantes Prize laureate Sergio Pitol’s Trilogy of Memory and Mephisto’s Waltz, The Heart of the Artichoke by fellow Cervantes recipient Elena Poniatowska, and Luis Jorge Boone’s Cannibal Nights. His translations have appeared variously in The Paris Review, The Literary Review, BOMB, The Guardian, Asymptote, among others. In addition, he is a contributing editor for World Literature Today and the translation editor-at-large for its sister publication Latin American Literature Today.
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As an adolescent, he fled his native Barranquilla for the capital Bogotá, not unlike Arthur Rimbaud, alongside whom he will appear in 2021 in Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times... -
My love affair with Elena Poniatowska began in 1986. I was a graduate student at Middlebury College’s Summer Spanish School. -
It doesn’t matter. I have a line by César Vallejo tattooed on my right forearm that says, “Who isn’t called Carlos or any other thing?” A short time before, Odysseus said to Polyphemus, “Nobody is my... -
I think we both have conflicted relationships with our ethnic communities here in the States. I think to a certain degree, we’re both in love with those communities, and at the same times shake our he... -
Writing the introduction to a dossier dedicated to a writer of Sergio Pitol’s stature is a daunting task. How does one summarize in a few hundred words the thousands of pages written, tens of thousand... -
Coincidentally, but fortuitously, all the writers chosen for this dossier are women, Jazmina Barrera (Mexico), Carmen Boullosa (Mexico), Jeannette Clariond (Mexico), Mariana Torres (Brazil), and Luisa... -
"I live in Cuba, a society that’s geriatric, totalitarian, dispossessed of many political liberties and human rights. Of course, all my fiction is political. Politics is too important to be left only...
