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Natasha Wimmer is an American translator best known for her translations of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño's 2666 and The Savage Detectives from Spanish into English.

Wimmer learned Spanish in Spain, where she spent four years growing up. She studied Spanish literature at Harvard. After graduating her first job was at Farrar, Straus & Giroux from 1996 to 1999 as an assistant and then managing editor.While there her first translation was Dirty Havana Trilogy by the Cuban novelist Pedro Juan Gutiérrez.

She then worked at Publishers Weekly, before the demands on working on Bolaño's books became full-time. "My reason for going into publishing in the first place was that I had decided in college that I would never be a fiction writer, but I knew I wanted to be as close to books as I could. Publishing was one way, and translating turned out to be a better way for me."

She has also translated Nobel Prize-winner Mario Vargas Llosa's The Language of Passion, The Way to Paradise, and Letters to a Young Novelist.

Wimmer received the PEN Translation Prize in 2009.

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Natasha Wimmer

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Books from Natasha Wimmer

Antwerp

Dirty Havana Trilogy

Sudden Death

Letters to a Young Novelist

Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles, and Speeches, 1998-2003

The Twilight Zone

So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance

The Way to Paradise

Kensington Gardens

Some Kind of Beautiful Signal

You Dreamed of Empires

The Dinner Guest

2666

The Third Reich

The Twilight Zone

The Secret of Evil

The Spirit of Science Fiction

Cowboy Graves: Three Novellas

2666, Part 2: The Part About Amalfitano

Woes of the True Policeman