Stavans, Ilan: - Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico City and is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College.
A cofounder of the Great Books Summer Program at Amherst, Stanford, Chicago, Oxford, and Dublin, he is the host of the NPR podcast In Contrast..
Stavans\'s work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted to the stage and screen.
He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chile\'s Presidential Medal, the International Latino Book Award, and the Jewish Book Award.
He has edited The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature , the three-volume set Isaac Bashevis Singer: Collected Stories , The Poetry of Pablo Neruda , among dozens of other volumes.
His books include On Borrowed Words , Spanglish , Dictionary Days , The Disappearance , and A Critic\'s Journey .
Stavans, Ilan: - Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico City and is the Publisher of Restless Books and the Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College
