Mara Faye Lethem

Born in New York in 1971, Mara Lethem is a writer and literary translator from the Catalan and the Spanish. She has worked on both shores of the Atlantic, in the United States and in Barcelona, where she lives. She has translated into English novels by David Trueba, Albert Sánchez Piñol, Javier Calvo and Patricio Pron, among others, and her translations have appeared in publications such as Granta, The Paris Review and McSweeney’s. She is the sister of novelist Jonathan Lethem.