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Natasha Wimmer



Natasha Wimmer is an American translator best known for her translations of Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño's 2666 and The Savage Detectives from Spanish into English.

Wimmer learned Spanish in Spain, where she spent four years growing up. She studied Spanish literature at Harvard. After graduating her first job was at Farrar, Straus & Giroux from 1996 to 1999 as an assistant and then managing editor.While there her first translation was Dirty Havana Trilogy by the Cuban novelist Pedro Juan Gutiérrez.

She then worked at Publishers Weekly, before the demands on working on Bolaño's books became full-time. "My reason for going into publishing in the first place was that I had decided in college that I would never be a fiction writer, but I knew
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4.18 avg rating — 52,863 ratings — published 1998 — 125 editions
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2666

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4.22 avg rating — 48,962 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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You Dreamed of Empires

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3.74 avg rating — 15,686 ratings — published 2022 — 8 editions
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Delirium

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3.97 avg rating — 12,556 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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Way to Paradise

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3.84 avg rating — 5,943 ratings — published 2003 — 57 editions
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The Third Reich

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3.55 avg rating — 6,361 ratings — published 2010 — 59 editions
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Space Invaders

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3.95 avg rating — 5,641 ratings — published 2013 — 30 editions
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A Little Lumpen Novelita

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3.63 avg rating — 6,107 ratings — published 2002 — 17 editions
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The Twilight Zone

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4.18 avg rating — 4,925 ratings — published 2016 — 38 editions
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Some Kind of Beautiful Signal

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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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