The African Shore

ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND THE TRANSLATOR

RODRIGO REY ROSA is perhaps the most prominent writer on the Guatemalan literary scene. Along with the work of writers like Roberto Bolaño, Horacio Castellanos Moya, and Fernando Vallejo, Rey Rosa’s fiction has been widely translated and internationally acclaimed. His books include Dust on Her Tongue, The Beggar’s Knife, and The Pelcari Project, all of which were translated into English by the late Paul Bowles. In addition to his many novels and story collections, Rodrigo Rey Rosa has translated books by Bowles, Norman Lewis, François Augiéras, and Paul Léautaud.

JEFFREY GRAY is author of Mastery’s End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry and editor of the Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. He is also co-editor (with Ann Keniston) of The New American Poetry of Engagement: A Twenty-First Century Anthology. He is a professor of English at Seton Hall University in New Jersey.