Mark Fried is an American translator of Latin American literature, primarily known for his translations of the

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Eduardo Galeano Eduardo Hughes Galeano (; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left". Galean ...

and the Mexican writer Elmer Mendoza. Fried grew up on the East Coast of the United States and spent his twenties living and travelling in Latin America. He lives in Canada and is married to the writer Elizabeth Hay. He has translated the following works by Galeano: * '' Soccer in Sun and Shadow'' * '' Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone'' * '' Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History'' * '' Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World'' * '' Hunter of Stories'' * '' Voices of Time: A Life in Stories'' * '' Walking Words'' * '' We Say No: Chronicles 1963-1991'' He has also translated the following works from Spanish to English: * ''Echoes of the Mexican-American War'' by Luis Gerardo Morales Moreno (editor) * ''Past and Present of the Verbs to Read and to Write: Essays on Literacy'' by Emilia Ferreiro * ''Map Drawn by a Spy'' by

Guillermo Cabrera Infante Guillermo Cabrera Infante (; Gibara, 22 April 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín, and used Guillermo Cain for the screenplay of th ...

* ''Firefly'' by

Severo Sarduy Severo Sarduy (February 25, 1937 – June 8, 1993) was a Cubans, Cuban poet, author, playwright, and critic of Cuban literature and art. Some of his works deal explicitly with male homosexuality and transvestism. Biography Born in a working-class ...

* ''Silver Bullets'' by

Élmer Mendoza Élmer Mendoza (born 6 December 1949) is a Mexican author. He is one of the key figures in the genre known as narcoliterature. A dramatist and short story writer, he is known above all for his novels, several of which feature the detective Edgar ...

* ''The Acid Test'' by Élmer Mendoza * ''Name of the Dog'' by Élmer Mendoza

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