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Eliot Weinberger

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February 06, 1949 in New York, The United States

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Eliot Weinberger is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator. His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in some thirty languages.
Weinberger first gained recognition for his translations of the Nobel Prize winning writer and poet Octavio Paz. His many translations of the work of Paz include the Collected Poems 1957-1987, In Light of India, and Sunstone. Among Weinberger's other translations are Vicente Huidobro's Altazor, Xavier Villaurrutia's Nostalgia for Death, and Jorge Luis Borges' Seven Nights. His edition of Borges’ Selected Non-Fictions received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism.

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Books by Eliot Weinberger

Average rating: 4.30 · 3,411 ratings · 263 reviews · 49 distinct works

	An Elemental Thing 4.44 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Karmic Traces: 1993-1999 4.43 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Oranges & Peanuts for Sale 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry 4.16 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Written on the Sky: Poems from the Japanese by Eliot Weinberger (Editor), Kenneth Rexroth (Translator) 4.37 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles 4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Works on Paper, 1980-1986 4.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Muhammad 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	World Beat: International Poetry Now from New Directions 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	What I Heard about Iraq 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings — expected publication 2305	My rating: