NEW YORK (AP) - Gregory Rabassa, a giant of 20th century translation whose credits include the English language edition for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," has died.
Rabassa died Monday at a hospice in Branford, Connecticut. He was 94 and died after a brief illness, according to his daughter, Kate Rabassa.
Rabassa was an essential gateway to the 1960s Latin American "boom," the rise of such authors as Garcia Marquez, Julio Cortazar and Mario Vargas Llosa. He worked on the novel that helped start the boom, Cortazar's "Hopscotch," for which Rabassa won a National Book Award for translation in 1967. He also worked on the novel which defined the boom, "One Hundred Years of Solitude."