Harold Augenbraum
Encyclopedia
Harold Augenbraum is an American writer, editor, and translator. He is currently Executive Director of the National Book Foundation
, member of the Board of Trustees of the Asian American Writers Workshop, and former vice chair of the New York Council for the Humanities. Before taking up his current position in November 2004, for fifteen years Augenbraum was Director of The Mercantile Library of New York, where he established the Center for World Literature, the New York Festival of Mystery, the Clifton Fadiman Medal, and the Proust Society of America. He has been awarded eight grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities
, received a Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America
for distinguished service to the mystery field, and coordinated the national celebration of the John Steinbeck Centennial. He is on the advisory board of the literary magazine The Common
, based at Amherst College
.
Augenbraum has published six books on Latino literature of the United States and translations of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition and the Filipino novelist José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere for Penguin Classics.
National Book Foundation
The National Book Foundation, founded in 1989, is an American nonprofit literary organization established "to raise the cultural appreciation of great writing in America." It achieves this through sponsoring the National Book Award, as well as the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American...
, member of the Board of Trustees of the Asian American Writers Workshop, and former vice chair of the New York Council for the Humanities. Before taking up his current position in November 2004, for fifteen years Augenbraum was Director of The Mercantile Library of New York, where he established the Center for World Literature, the New York Festival of Mystery, the Clifton Fadiman Medal, and the Proust Society of America. He has been awarded eight grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
, received a Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America
Mystery Writers of America
Mystery Writers of America is an organization for mystery writers, based in New York.The organization was founded in 1945 by Clayton Rawson, Anthony Boucher, Lawrence Treat, and Brett Halliday....
for distinguished service to the mystery field, and coordinated the national celebration of the John Steinbeck Centennial. He is on the advisory board of the literary magazine The Common
The Common (Magazine)
The Common is a nonprofit biannual magazine based at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. The magazine publishes stories, poems, essays, and images centered around "a modern sense of place." - History :...
, based at Amherst College
Amherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
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Augenbraum has published six books on Latino literature of the United States and translations of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition and the Filipino novelist José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere for Penguin Classics.
Full Length Books by edited and translated by Harold Augenbraum
- 2006 -- Lengua Fresca: Latinos on the Edge edited with Ilan Stavans
- 2006—José Rizal, Noli Me Tangere translation
- 2002—Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition revised translation
- 2002 -- How to Organize a Steinbeck Book or Film Discussion Group with Susan Shillinglaw
- 2000 -- U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers edited with Margarite Fernandez-Olmos
- 1997 -- The Latino Reader: An American Literary Tradition from 1542 to the Present Day edited with Margarite Fernandez Olmos
- 1993 -- Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories with Ilan Stavans
- 1993 -- Bendíceme, América with Terry Quinn and Ilan Stavan
- 1992 -- Latinos in English: A Selected Bibliography of Latino Fiction Writers of the United States
External links
- http://www.nationalbook.org National Book Foundation Official Site
- http://www.haroldaugenbraum.com Augenbraum's web site