Jonathan Tittler

Jonathan Tittler (b. 1945, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A) is Emeritus Professor of Hispanic Studies at Rutgers University. He earned an A.B. from Hamilton College and a Ph.D. in Spanish literature from Cornell University. He has translated sixteen book-length texts, mostly novels, from Spanish into English, since 1976. In 1991 he translated a previous novel by Alvarez Gardeazabal, "Bazaar of the Idiots." In 2011 he was awarded Honorable Mention by the MLA for his translation of Manuel Zapata Olivella's "Chango, el Gran Putas," an epic novel of the African diaspora. In retirement with his wife Susan in upstate New York, he rides a recumbent e-trike, drives Uber, and hangs out with a group of peers called the Geezers.

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