Laura Wittner

Laura Wittner was born in Buenos Aires. Her poetry collections include El pasillo del tren (1996), Los cosacos (1998), Las últimas mudanzas (2001), La tomadora de café (2005), Lluvias (2009), Balbuceos en una misma dirección (2011), La altura (2016), Lugares donde una no está (2017), and Traducción de la ruta (2020). In 2021, she published Se vive y se traduce, an autobiographical essay on translation, for which she was awarded a Premio Nacional in 2023. She has also published more than twenty children’s books. Her translations include books by Leonard Cohen, David Markson, M. John Harrison, Cynan Jones, Claire-Louise Bennett, Katherine Mansfield, and James Schuyler, among many others.