Eliot Weinberger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Eliot Weinberger

American writer

Date of Birth: 06-Feb-1949

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: writer, translator, linguist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Eliot Weinberger (born 6 February 1949) is a contemporary American writer, essayist, editor, and translator.
His work regularly appears in translation and has been published in more than thirty languages. Weinberger first gained recognition for his translations of the Nobel Prize–winning writer and poet Octavio Paz.
His many translations of the work of Paz include The Poems of Octavio Paz, In Light of India, and Sunstone.
Among Weinberger's other translations are Vicente Huidobro's Altazor, Xavier Villaurrutia's Nostalgia for Death, and Jorge Luis Borges' Seven Nights.
His edition of Borges’ Selected Non-Fictions received the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Today, Weinberger is primarily known for his literary writings (essays) and political articles, the former characterized by their wide-ranging subjects and experimental style, verging on a kind of documentary prose poetry, and the latter highly critical of American politics and foreign policy.