Anne McLean
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Anne McLean studied history in London, Ontario and literary translation in London, England, and now lives in Toronto, where she translates Latin American and Spanish novels, short stories, travelogues, memoirs, and other writings by authors including Héctor Abad, Javier Cercas, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, and Julio Cortázar. Novels she translated have twice been awarded both the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Premio Valle Inclán. She won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2014 with Juan Gabriel Vásquez for The Sound of Things Falling and was shortlisted for the 2009 IFFP for The Informers and the 2019 Booker International Prize for The Shape of the Ruins, with the same author. Her co-translation with Victor Meadowcroft of Evelio Rosero’s novel Toño the Infallible (Toño Ciruelo) was a finalist for the 2023 PEN Translation Prize.
