Collection: Tom Christensen

Thomas Christensen is the author of 1616: Intimations of Modernity, New World/New Words: Translating Latin American Literature, and with his wife Carol Christensen, The U.S.–Mexican War. He has translated works by Carlos Fuentes, Alejo Carpentier, and Julio Cortázar. His translation of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Ballets Without Music, Without Dancers, Without Anything was a finalist for the PEN Center USA West Literary Award in translation. He is director of publications at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco.

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