McLEAN, Anne
Bradford, England
Spanish-English
Biographical Data

Anne McLean is originally from Hamilton, Ontario. Over the years she has spent time in Toronto, Spain, Guatemala, Nicaragua and various other places. She has a B.A. in History and an M.A. in the Theory and Practice of Literary Translation. She currently lives in the north of England where she works as a freelance translator.

Translated Works

Original Cercas, Javier, Soldados de Salamina, Barcelona: Tusquets, 2001.
Translation Soldiers of Salamis, London: Bloomsbury, 2003. (forthcoming) Fiction.
   
Original Martín Gaite, Carmen, Lo raro es vivir, Barcelona: Anagrama, 1996.
Translation Living's the Strange Thing, London: Harvill, forthcoming. Fiction.
   
Original Abdala, Verónica, Carlos Polimeni and REP, Borges para principiantes, Buenos Aires: Era Naciente, 1999.
Translation Borges for Beginners, London: Writers & Readers, forthcoming. Comic.
   
Original Padilla, Ignacio, Amphitryon, Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 2000.
Translation Shadow Without a Name (with co-translator, Peter Bush), London: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Fiction.
   
Original Arias, Juan, Paulo Coelho: Las Confesiones del peregrino, Madrid: Planeta, 1999.
Translation Paulo Coelho: Confessions of a Pilgrim, London: Harper Collins, 2001. Interview.
   
Original González Esteva, Orlando, Amigo Enigma, Madrid: Ave del Paraíso, 2000.
Translation Enigma My Old Friend: The Drawings of Juan Soriano (with co-translator, Peter Bush), Madrid: Ave del Paraíso, 2000. Memoir / art appreciation / poetic prose.
   
Original Castillo Bueno, María de los Reyes, Reyita sencillamente: Testimonio de una negra cubana nonagenaria, La Habana: Prolibros, 1996.
Translation Reyita: The Life of a Black Cuban Woman in the Twentieth Century (as told to her daughter, Daisy Rubiera Castillo), London: Latin American Bureau Press, 2000 / Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2000. Autobiography / Oral history.
   
Original Varsavsky, Paula, Nadie alzaba la voz, Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1996.
Translation No One Said A Word, Princeton: Ontario Review Press, 2000. Fiction.