Alicia Borinsky is a novelist, poet, and literary critic. Born in Buenos Aires, she is now professor of Latin American and comparative literature and director of the Writing in the Americas Program at Boston University. In 1996 she received the Latino Literature Award for her novel Suenos del seductor abandonado (translated into English in 1998 as Dreams of the Abandoned Seducer). Her other fiction includes Mina Cruel (1989, translated into English in 1993 as Mean Woman), and Cine continuado (1997, translated into English in 2002 as All Night Movie). Translator Cola Franzen, with whom Borinsky collaborated on this translation, has won various awards for her work, most recently the 2004 PEN Literary Award and the Gregory Kolovakos Award. She has translated several of Borinsky's works.
