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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Gregory Rabassa (born 9 March 1922) is a renowned literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English who currently teaches at Queens College. Rabassa was born in Yonkers, New York, U.S., into a family headed by a Cuban emigre. After serving during World War II as an OSS cryptographer and receiving a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth, Rabassa enrolled as a graduate student at Columbia University, where he eventually earned a doctorate. He taught for over two decades at Columbia University before accepting a position at Queens College. He works primarily in Spanish and Portuguese. He has produced English- language versions of the works of several major Latin American novelists, including Julio Cortazar, Jorge Amado and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. On the advice of Cortazar, Garcia Marquez waited three years for Rabassa's schedule to become open so that he could translate One Hundred Years of Solitude. He later declared Rabassa's translation to be superior to his own Spanish original. Typically, Rabassa translates without reading the book beforehand, working as he goes.

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