Discipline: Literature – translation

Sheila Glaser

Discipline: Literature – translation
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003

Sheila Faria Glaser is an editor at the New York Times Magazine and has translated Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation and Michel Serre’s The Troubador of Knowledge.

At MacDowell, she completed a translation of a Cape Verdean novel, "The Last Will and Testament of Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araujo", by Germano Almeida to be published by New Directions later that fall. Previous translations include Michael Serres's "The Troubador of Knowledge" and Jean Baudrillard's, "Simulacra and Simulation" (both University of Michigan Press)

Studios

Calderwood

Sheila Glaser worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Burr-McCallum Architects of Williamstown, MA, provided the award-winning design in 1999; and the construction of the handsome studio was completed in time for its first artist to arrive early in 2000. With a series of double-hung casement…

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