Reinaldo Arenas was born in Cuba in 1943. In 1980, he was one of
120,000 Cubans who arrived in the United States on the Mariel
boatlift. Arenas settled in New York where he lived until his death
from AIDS ten years later.
Andrew Hurley is a translator of numerous works of literature,
criticism, history, and memoir. He is professor emeritus at the
University of Puerto Rico.
Thomas Colchie is an acclaimed translator, editor, and literary
agent for international authors. He is the editor of A Hammock
Beneath the Mangoes. He has written for the Village Voice and The
Washington Post. His translations include Manuel Puig's Kiss of the
Spider Woman and (with Elizabeth Bishop, Gregory Rabassa, and Mark
Strand) Carlos Drummond de Andrade's Travelling in the Family.
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