Esther Allen

For the American psychologist, see Esther Allen Gaw.
Esther Allen
Allen in 2020
Allen in 2020
Born (1962-06-29) June 29, 1962 (age 62)
Occupationwriter, translator
NationalityAmerican

Esther Allen (born June 29, 1962) is a writer, professor, and translator of French-language and Spanish-language literature into English. She is on the faculties of Baruch College (Department of Modern Languages & Comparative Literature) and the Graduate Center, CUNY (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Ph.D. Program; French Ph.D. Program).[1] Allen co-founded PEN World Voices: the New York Festival of International Literature (2004), and worked with PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grants from their inception in 2003 to 2010. Allen heads the Development Committee of the American Literary Translators Association,[2] and serves on the board of Writers Omi, part of Omi International Arts Center, on the Advisory Council to the Spanish-language program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and on the Selection Committee for the French Voices translation subvention program of the Services culturels français.

  1. ^ "Esther Allen - Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature - Weissman School of Arts and Sciences - Baruch College". Baruch.cuny.edu. Retrieved November 5, 2017.
  2. ^ "Standing Committees - The American Literary Translators Association". Literarytranslators.org. Retrieved November 5, 2017.