
Eliot Weinberger’s books of literary essays and poetry include An Elemental Thing, The Ghosts of Birds, Angels & Saints, and The Life of Tu Fu. His political writings are collected in What I Heard About Iraq and What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles. The author of a study of Chinese poetry translation, 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, he is a translator of the poetry of Bei Dao and the editor of The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry. He was formerly the general editor of the series Calligrams: Writings from and on China and the literary editor of the Murty Classical Library of India. Among his translations of Latin American poetry and prose are The Poems of Octavio Paz, Paz’s In Light of India, Jorge Luis Borges’ Seven Nights and Selected Non-Fictions, and Vicente Huidobro’s Altazor. His work has been translated into over thirty languages. He lives in New York City, where he was born.
艾略特·溫伯格(Eliot Weinberger)是美國著名散文家、詩人、翻譯家及編輯,著有多部文學評論與詩作,包括《元素之物》(An Elemental Thing)、《鳥之幽靈》(The Ghosts of Birds)、《天使與聖徒》(Angels & Saints)及《杜甫一生》(The Life of Tu Fu)。其政治評論則結集為《我所聽聞的伊拉克》(What I Heard About Iraq)與《這裏發生了甚麼:布殊紀事》(What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles)。
溫伯格亦是研究中國詩歌翻譯的重要學者,著有《觀看王維的十九種方式》(19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei),探討中國古典詩歌在英語世界中的翻譯與接受。他同時譯介北島詩作,並擔任《新方向中國古典詩歌選集》(The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry)主編,對中國詩歌在英語世界的傳播貢獻卓著。
他曾任「Calligrams:來自中國及關於中國的著作」(Calligrams: Writings from and on China)叢書總編輯,以及哈佛大學出版社「穆爾蒂印度古典文庫」(Murty Classical Library of India)文學編輯,長期致力於亞洲文學經典的整理與推廣。
作為譯者,溫伯格譯介了眾多拉丁美洲文學作品,包括奧克塔維奧·帕斯(Octavio Paz)的《奧克塔維奧·帕斯詩選》及《印度之光》(In Light of India)、豪爾赫·路易斯·博爾赫斯(Jorge Luis Borges)的《七夜》(Seven Nights)及《非虛構作品選》(Selected Non-Fictions),以及智利詩人維森特·維多夫羅(Vicente Huidobro)的代表作《阿爾塔索爾》(Altazor)等。溫伯格的作品已獲翻譯成三十多種語言。
溫伯格生於紐約,現居紐約。
