Eliot Weinberger is an American translator, editor, and author of prose. He was born in New York City in 1949.
He is the main translator of Octavio Paz into English, work for which he received the Mexican Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest award the Mexican government bestows on foreign nationals.
Weinberger's other honors include the National Book Critics Circle prize for Criticism in 1999 for his edition of Jorge Luis Borges’ Selected Non-Fictions, and PEN's first Gregory Kolovakos Award in 1992 for promoting Hispanic literature in the United States.
He is also the translator of Bei Dao's Unlock (with Iona Man-Cheong). His books of prose include Muhammad, What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles, and Karmic Traces: 1993-1999. He is the editor of World Beat: International Poetry Now from New Directions and The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. His most recent book, An Elemental Thing, was published in May 2007.
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