Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans was born in Mexico City in 1961 to descendants of Eastern European Jews and grew up between Yiddish and Spanish. He is a writer and publisher and served as a professor of Latin American culture at Amherst College in Massachusetts. His work has received numerous awards, and his books—covering subjects including Spanglish, Latino culture in the United States, and Jewish-Latin American culture—have been translated into more than a dozen languages.