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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 ...more

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	The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer (Translator) 4.18 avg rating — 54,663 ratings — published 1998 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	2666 by Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer (Translator) 4.22 avg rating — 50,696 ratings — published 2004 — 175 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue, Natasha Wimmer (Translator) 3.74 avg rating — 17,215 ratings — published 2022 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Delirium by Laura Restrepo, Natasha Wimmer (Translator) 3.97 avg rating — 13,139 ratings — published 2004 — 62 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Space Invaders by Nona Fernández, Natasha Wimmer (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 6,022 ratings — published 2013 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way to Paradise : A Novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, Natasha Wimmer 3.84 avg rating — 6,064 ratings — published 2003 — 111 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño, Natasha Wimmer (Translator) 3.55 avg rating — 6,537 ratings — published 2010 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little Lumpen Novelita by Roberto Bolaño, Gabra Zackman (Goodreads Author) (Narrator), Natasha Wimmer 3.63 avg rating — 6,387 ratings — published 2002 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández, Natasha Wimmer (Contributor), Raquel Beattie (Reader) 4.18 avg rating — 5,234 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Kind of Beautiful Signal by Natasha Wimmer (Editor), Jeffrey Yang (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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