{"id":177,"date":"2019-12-01T16:45:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T16:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/donquixoteoflamancha\/chapter\/about-author-and-translator-2\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T19:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T19:49:16","slug":"about-author-and-translator","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/donquixoteoflamancha\/chapter\/about-author-and-translator\/","title":{"rendered":"About author, translators, and illustrators"},"content":{"raw":"

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES<\/span> was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid[footnote]Interactive visualizer that, based on Pedro Texeira's map (1656), makes it possible to tour the Madrid of the 17th century<\/a> in which Miguel de Cervantes lived.[\/footnote] but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor\u2019s prison that he began to write Don Quixote<\/span>. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote<\/span>. He died on April 23, 1616. See a\u00a0complete biography in Spanish (written by Luis Astrana Mar\u00edn between 1948 and 1958).<\/a><\/span> See link to the book The man who invented fiction: how Cervantes ushered in the modern world<\/em><\/a>, by William Egginton (2016).<\/p>\r\nTranslation:<\/strong>\r\n

EDITH GROSSMAN\u00a0<\/span>is the distinguished prize-winning translator of major works by leading contemporary Hispanic writers, including Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alvaro Mutis, and Mayra Montero. Her new translation of Don Quixote<\/span> is Edith Grossman\u2019s excursion into the classic literature of an earlier time, a natural kind of progression in reverse. Now she employs her many years\u2019 experience translating modern classics to bring us an elegantly contemporary translation of Don Quixote<\/span>. She chose to use Mart\u00edn de Riquer's 1950 edition of Don Quixote<\/em> in Spanish, although the 1989 edition is considered better. See reviews of Grossman's translation in the\u00a0Introduction chapter<\/a> of this online edition.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\nAdditionally, Publiconsulting Media<\/strong> has used other translation resources as indicated with notes to the applicable texts.\r\n\r\nIllustrations:<\/strong>\r\n

RICARDO BALACA<\/span> (1844-1880) was a Spanish painter and illustrator who specialized in battle scenes. He provided illustrations for a deluxe edition<\/a> of Don Quixote<\/em>, annotated by the Cervantes scholar Nicol\u00e1s D\u00edaz de Benjumea, and published by Montaner i Sim\u00f3n in Barcelona, after Balaca's death. Due to his dead, Josep Llu\u00eds Pellicer illustrated volume II of this edition.<\/p>\r\n

JOSEP LLUIS PELLICER<\/span> (1842-1901) was the artistic director for \"Editorial Montaner i Sim\u00f3n\", where he illustrated Don Quixote<\/em>, The Legend of the Cid<\/em> by Jos\u00e9 Zorrilla and some of the Episodios Nacionales<\/em> by Benito P\u00e9rez Gald\u00f3s.<\/p>","rendered":"

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES<\/span> was born on September 29, 1547, in Alcala de Henares, Spain. At twenty-three he enlisted in the Spanish militia and in 1571 fought against the Turks in the battle of Lepanto, where a gunshot wound permanently crippled his left hand. He spent four more years at sea and then another five as a slave after being captured by Barbary pirates. Ransomed by his family, he returned to Madrid[1]<\/sup><\/a> but his disability hampered him; it was in debtor\u2019s prison that he began to write Don Quixote<\/span>. Cervantes wrote many other works, including poems and plays, but he remains best known as the author of Don Quixote<\/span>. He died on April 23, 1616. See a\u00a0complete biography in Spanish (written by Luis Astrana Mar\u00edn between 1948 and 1958).<\/a><\/span> See link to the book The man who invented fiction: how Cervantes ushered in the modern world<\/em><\/a>, by William Egginton (2016).<\/p>\n

Translation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

EDITH GROSSMAN\u00a0<\/span>is the distinguished prize-winning translator of major works by leading contemporary Hispanic writers, including Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Alvaro Mutis, and Mayra Montero. Her new translation of Don Quixote<\/span> is Edith Grossman\u2019s excursion into the classic literature of an earlier time, a natural kind of progression in reverse. Now she employs her many years\u2019 experience translating modern classics to bring us an elegantly contemporary translation of Don Quixote<\/span>. She chose to use Mart\u00edn de Riquer’s 1950 edition of Don Quixote<\/em> in Spanish, although the 1989 edition is considered better. See reviews of Grossman’s translation in the\u00a0Introduction chapter<\/a> of this online edition.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, Publiconsulting Media<\/strong> has used other translation resources as indicated with notes to the applicable texts.<\/p>\n

Illustrations:<\/strong><\/p>\n

RICARDO BALACA<\/span> (1844-1880) was a Spanish painter and illustrator who specialized in battle scenes. He provided illustrations for a deluxe edition<\/a> of Don Quixote<\/em>, annotated by the Cervantes scholar Nicol\u00e1s D\u00edaz de Benjumea, and published by Montaner i Sim\u00f3n in Barcelona, after Balaca’s death. Due to his dead, Josep Llu\u00eds Pellicer illustrated volume II of this edition.<\/p>\n

JOSEP LLUIS PELLICER<\/span> (1842-1901) was the artistic director for \u00abEditorial Montaner i Sim\u00f3n\u00bb, where he illustrated Don Quixote<\/em>, The Legend of the Cid<\/em> by Jos\u00e9 Zorrilla and some of the Episodios Nacionales<\/em> by Benito P\u00e9rez Gald\u00f3s.<\/p>\n

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