Portrait of Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans

Mexican-American intellectual, essayist, and cultural commentator Ilan Stavans is the author, translator, or editor of numerous works. His latest books are, as editor, All the Odes by Pablo Neruda (Farrar, Straus & Giroux); as translator, The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela (W. W. Norton & Co., with Anna More); and as author, A Most Imperfect Union: A Contrarian History of the United States (Basic Books, with Lalo Alcaraz). He has been called “the czar of Latino culture in the United States” (The New York Times) and “Latin America’s liveliest and boldest critic and most innovative cultural enthusiast” (The Washington Post). Stavans is the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. (updated 10/2014)

Read “Literature and Prayer: A Talk with Ilan Stavans” by Kim Ben-Porat in AGNI Online.

AGNI has published the following work:

...and justice for all

Essay by Ilan Stavans

The Rise and Fall of Yiddish

Essay by Ilan Stavans

Xerox Man

Fiction by Ilan Stavans

Memory and Literature

Essay by Ilan Stavans

Blimunda

Fiction by Ilan Stavans Translated from the Spanish by Harry Morales

AGNI has published the following translations:

1973

Poetry by Raúl Zurita Translated from the Spanish by Ilan Stavans

Heaven Reject

Poetry by Raúl Zurita Translated from the Spanish by Ilan Stavans

It’s Because We’re So Poor

Fiction by Juan Rulfo Translated from the Spanish by Ilan Stavans
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