Natasha Wimmer

Longlist, 2026 National Book Awards
Finalist, 2021 National Book Awards
Longlist, 2019 National Book Awards

Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolaño, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her most recent translations are False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez and Now I Surrender by Álvaro Enrigue. Her reviews have appeared in The New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and The Nation. Learn more >

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Now I Surrender

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ISBN 9780593084076
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
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The Twilight Zone

ISBN 9781644450475
Graywolf Press

It is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and begins to talk to a reporter, who records his testimony. More about this book >

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Space Invaders Translated by Natasha Wimmer

ISBN 9781644450079
Graywolf Press /

One of the leading Latin American writers of her generation, Nona Fernández effortlessly builds a choral voice and constantly shifting image of young life in the waning years of the dictatorship. In her short but intricately layered novel, she summons the collective memory of a generation, rescuing felt truth from the oblivion of official history. More about this book >

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Natasha Wimmer

Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolaño, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her most recent translations are False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez and Now I Surrender by Álvaro Enrigue. Her reviews have appeared in The New York Review of Books, the New York Times, and The Nation. She teaches at Princeton University and Columbia University, and she is the recipient of a PEN Translation Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and two National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowships. She lives in Brooklyn.

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