Eliot Weinberger Translator, Author & Editor

Eliot Weinberger was born in 1949 in New York, where he still lives. Among his many translations are Borges's Selected Non-Fictions (Winner of a National Book Critics Circle Prize), The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz and Bei Dao's Unlock. In 1992 he received a PEN Award for his work in promoting Hispanic literature in the U.S, and in 2000 he was awarded the Order of the Aztec Eagle by the Mexican government. His latest book, What I Heard About Iraq (Verso), his anti-war polemic, first appeared in the L.R.B in 2005.