HAUSNER, Beatriz
Toronto, Ontario
English-Spanish
French-English
French-Spanish
Spanish-English
Biographical Data

Beatriz Hausner is a poet and the translator of some 20 works of literature, principally from Spanish into English. Her poetry is rooted in the traditions of Spanish America and international Surrealism and most of her translations have focused on the writers of those literatures. Many of them were collected in The Invisible Presence Sixteen Poets of Spanish America 1925-1995 (Mosaic Press, 1996). Her first full-length poetry collection, The Wardrobe Mistress, was published in 2003. Hausner appears frequently on CBC's Talking Books and reviews books for journals and newspapers. She was President of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada, and was one of the founders of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre.