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George Henson, PhD

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Translator of Elena Poniatowska, Sergio Pitol, Luis Jorge Boone, Alberto Chimal, Abel Posse, & others. Six titles with Deep Vellum, soon to be seven. I teach translation at the Middlebury Institute at Monterey.

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George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Dec 4

I was today years old when I learned that Elena dedicated something to me.

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George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · 17d

MSNBC, especially the daytime lineup, will run with the sensationalist angle every time.

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · 17d

If anyone should be taking Comey to court, it's Hillary.

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · 18d

I should probably stop taking credit for my former student @michellemirabella.bsky.social, but I'll never stop celebrating and promoting her. literalmagazine.com/too-much-text/

Too Much Text - Literal Magazine

Translated by Michelle Mirabella My work is writing—I write for media outlets, I write my own books, I write books credited to others, and lately I have been seeing this feedback: “Too much text.” In ...

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George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you, Frank Garrett, for your kind words, which mean the world to me.

Frank Garrett @frankgarrett.online · 26d

Rereading bits of Pitol ten years later and all the more convinced that the English translation by @unpoetaloco.bsky.social really was a transformational event in world literature … if only the English-speaking/reading world were interested in and ready for transformation.

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · 19d

I’m just seeing this, Frank, and you’ve left me speechless. What a kind thing to say. And, I agree wholeheartedly re his knowledge of Slavic literatures. Translating his Trilogy of Memory was a great education for me.

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Aug 29

It’s the most misguided and mismanaged clusterfuck I’ve ever seen in any organization. It’s like it’s being handled by DOGE.

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Aug 28

Middlebury College will shutter the Middlebury Institute at Monterey as of June 2027.

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Aug 6

Tim Miller is looking especially sexy today.

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Jul 6

I'm revising my translation of Abel Posse's The Passion according to Eva, and I'm remembering when Carlos Fuentes told me he lost his virginity in Buenos Aires, listening to Eva Duarte (not yet Perón) in a radionovela.

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World Literature Today @worldlittoday.bsky.social · Jun 23

“When you finish reading this beautifully crafted memoir, and I hope you do, my guess is you’ll believe—as I do—that a happy ending, as in the rom-coms Gomez grew up watching, is just over the horizon.” – George Henson

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worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/all...

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George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Jun 12

Where's @schumer.senate.gov?

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Jun 12

Where's @schiff.senate.gov?

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · May 23

So, is “genre-defying” now a genre?

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George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · May 19

I'd like to wish my dear Elena a happy 93rd birthday. I took this photo four years ago outside her home in Chimalistac just after she celebrated 89. I'm looking forward to seeing her next week.

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George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · May 17

Honored to have been invited to brunch tomorrow with Yuko Matsuoka, Japanese translator of the Harry Potter books and Middlebury Institute commencement speaker.

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · May 14

Honored to serve with such esteemed colleagues.

American Literary Translators Association @littranslate.bsky.social · May 12

ALTA is delighted to spotlight the judges of the 2025 awards!

You can learn about the judges and our awards on this page: literarytranslators.org/awards/

We are honored to have these judges serving in 2025 on the following prize juries:

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George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · May 1

Was he hitting the pipe?

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Apr 25

Thank you, Frank! Hope you’re well!

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Apr 25

I reviewed @otroedgargomez.bsky.social's gender-bending, genre-defying memoir, Alligator Tears, for @worldlittoday.bsky.social. worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/all...

Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez

Crown. 2025. 256 pages.

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George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Apr 25

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Alberto Chimal @albertochimal.com · Apr 17

Hace tiempo escribí sobre el enorme poder cultural que tenía #JKRowling antes de volverse francamente extremista, y sobre cómo lo perdió.
literalmagazine.com/el-nombre-de...

El nombre de Kingsley Shacklebolt - Literal Magazine

¿Qué es el poder? Los intentos de responder esa pregunta deben ocupar millones de páginas. Yo no podría agregar nada nuevo al tema: no soy filósofo ni politólogo. Pero tal vez pueda ilustrar un caso p...

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George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Apr 14

Peruvian novelist, Nobel laureate, and Boom pioneer Mario Vargas Llosa has died at 89. www.reuters.com/world/americ....

Peruvian writer and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa died

Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature, died on Sunday in the country's capital Lima at the age of 89, surrounded by his family and "at peace," his son Alvaro Vargas Llosa said on his X social media account.

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George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Mar 24

Columbia has formed a new conference: the Poison Ivy League.

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Mar 3

*apparently

George Henson, PhD @unpoetaloco.bsky.social · Mar 3

So much to say about the PEN/Faulkner short list. Actually, the list says it all: Indie presses don't publish great literature, and husband/wife competition is the new big thing now.

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