Chris Andrews (translator)

Chris Andrews FAHA (born 1962 in Newcastle, NSW) is an Australian translator and writer.

Andrews studied and then taught at the University of Melbourne ^[1] before moving to the University of Western Sydney in 2009. ^[2] In 2003 he published the first translation into English of the work of Roberto Bolaño. ^{[3] [4] [5]} He was awarded the Valle-Inclán Prize in 2005 for his translation of Distant Star. ^[1] In 2014 he published a monograph on Bolaño. ^{[3] [6]} Andrews has also translated other Spanish-language literature, such as works by César Aira. ^{[1] [7]} Andrews has been keen to publish translations from French but has been unable to convince publishers to commission translations for work he likes. ^[8]

Andrews has also published original poetry; he won the 2003 Wesley Michel Wright Prize ^[9] and his second collection of poems, Lime Green Chair, won the 2011 Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. ^[10] He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2015. ^[11]

Works

As author

• Poetry and Cosmogony: Science in the Writing of Queneau and Ponge, Rodopi, 1999, ISBN   978-9042005679
• Cut Lunch, Indigo, 2002, ISBN   978-1740271370
• Lime Green Chair, Waywiser Press, 2012, ISBN   9781904130512
• Roberto Bolaño's Fiction: An Expanding Universe, Columbia University Press, 2014, ISBN   978-0-231-16806-9

As translator

• The Secret of Evil by Roberto Bolaño
• The Insufferable Gaucho by Roberto Bolaño
• The Return by Roberto Bolaño
• Monsieur Pain by Roberto Bolaño
• Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolaño
• Amulet by Roberto Bolaño
• Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño
• By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño
• The Skating Rink by Roberto Bolaño
• The Divorce by César Aira
• Birthday by César Aira
• The Linden Tree by César Aira
• Ema, the Captive by César Aira
• The Musical Brain by César Aira
• Shantytown by César Aira
• Varamo by César Aira
• Ghosts by César Aira
• How I Became a Nun by César Aira
• An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter by César Aira

References

1. Wilson, Scott Bryan. "The Chris Andrews Interview". The Quarterly Conversation. Archived from the original on 29 October 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
2. "Associate Professor Chris Andrews". University of Western Sydney. 2 August 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
3. Day, Gregory (4 October 2014). "The brilliance of Roberto Bolano unveiled by Andrews". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 23 November 2017.
4. "Chris Andrews". New Directions. Retrieved 28 October 2014.
5. Rohter, Larry (19 December 2012). "Harvesting Fragments From a Chilean Master: 'Woes of the True Policeman,' by Roberto Bolaño". The New York Times . Retrieved 28 October 2014.
6. "Roberto Bolano's Fiction: An Expanding Universe. Chris Andrews". Publishers Weekly . 28 April 2014. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
7. Vidal, Juan (25 December 2016). "Get A Global Perspective With 5 Of The Year's Best Books In Translation". NPR . Retrieved 23 November 2017.
8. Heyward, Will (13 June 2012). "Chris Andrews". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
9. "Australian Centre Literary Awards - Wesley Michel Wright Prize in Poetry". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
10. "7th Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize". Waywiser Press. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
11. "Annual Report 2015–2016" (PDF). Australian Academy of the Humanities. 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2024.