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    Gregory Rabassa

    American literary translator

    Gregory Rabassa (March 9, – June 13, ) was an American literarytranslator from Spanish and Portuguese to English.

    He taught for many years at Columbia University and Queens College.[1]

    Life and career

    Rabassa was born in Yonkers, New York, to a family headed by a Cuban émigré. After serving during World War II as an OSScryptographer, he received a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth.

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    He earned his doctorate at Columbia University and taught there for over two decades before accepting a position at Queens College, City University of New York.[2][3][4][5][6]

    Rabassa translated literature from Spanish and Portuguese.

    He produced English-language versions of the works of several major Latin American novelists, including Julio Cortázar, Jorge Amado and Gabriel García Márquez. On the advice of Cortázar, García Márquez waited three years for Rabassa to schedule translating One