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George Henson

George Henson is the author of eleven book-length translations, including Cervantes Prize laureate Elena Poniatowska’s The Heart of the Artichoke and fellow Cervantes winner Sergio Pitol’s Trilogy of Memory and Carnival Triptych. His most recent publication is the memoir A Long Day in Venice by Argentine author Abel Posse. His translations have appeared, among other venues, in Latin American Literature Today, World Literature Today, The New England Review, Words Without Borders, Granta, and The Guardian. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Tulsa.

National Literature as an Anxiety Bookshelf: A (Pending) Conversation with Osdany Morales about Lengua materna

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June 6, 2024

How Marcelo Cohen Taught Me to Swim in Translation, followed by an apostil (and footnote): to coger or not to coger, that is the f’ing question

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March 25, 2024

The Behind-the-Scenes of C.E. Feiling’s El agua electrizada: Disputed Biographical and Political Landscapes

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June 4, 2023

An Excerpt from A Long Day in Venice by Abel Posse, translated by George Henson

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June 3, 2022
The Love Parade by Sergio Pitol, translated by George Henson

From The Love Parade by Sergio Pitol, translated by George Henson

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August 30, 2021

“Luminous Fall” by Gunter Silva

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August 25, 2021
From The Most Fragile Objects

From The Most Fragile Objects by Alberto Chimal

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February 13, 2020

From The Train Passes First by Elena Poniatowska

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August 15, 2019

“The Essays of Sergio Ramírez” by Nicasio Urbina

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October 31, 2018

“Bonsai” by Martín Felipe Castagnet

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May 26, 2018
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