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Harold Augenbraum (born March 31, 1953) is an American writer, editor, and translator. He is the former Executive Director of theNational Book Foundation, and former member of the Board of Trustees of theAsian American Writers Workshop, and former vice chair of theNew York Council for the Humanities. Before taking up his position at the National Book Foundation in November 2004, for fifteen years Augenbraum was Director ofThe Mercantile Library of New York (now the Center for Fiction), where he established theCenter for World Literature, theNew York Festival of Mystery, theClifton Fadiman Medal, and theProust Society of America. He has been awarded eight grants from theNational Endowment for the Humanities, received aRaven Award from theMystery Writers of America for distinguished service to the mystery field, and coordinated the national celebration of theJohn Steinbeck Centennial. He is on the advisory board of the literary magazineThe Common, based atAmherst College.^[1] In 2016, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. He is co-founder, with Alice Kaplan, of the Yale Translation Initiative at Yale University, where he is Associate Director, and from 2017 to 2019 was Acting Editor ofThe Yale Review.

Augenbraum has published six books on Latino literature of the United States. He has translated new editions of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’sChronicle of the Narváez Expedition, and Filipino novelist José Rizal’sNoli Me Tangere (1887) andEl filibusterismo for Penguin Classics. He also edited theCollected Poems of Marcel Proust.

• 2013—Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca,Narrative of the Narváez Expedition, edited
• 2013—Marcel Proust,Collected Poems, edited with an Introduction by
• 2012—Juan Rulfo,The Plain in Flames (El Llano en llamas), translated byIlan Stavans and Harold Augenbraum
• 2011—José Rizal,El Filibusterismo, edited, translated, and with an Introduction by
• 2010 --The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, General Editor, Ilan Stavans, co- editor, Harold Augenbraum, et al.
• 2006 --Lengua Fresca: Latinos on the Edge, edited with Ilan Stavans
• 2006—José Rizal,Noli Me Tángere (1887), translation
• 2005 --Encyclopedia Latina, general editor, Ilan Stavans, associate editor, Harold Augenbraum.
• 2002—Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca,Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition, revised translation
• 2002 --How to Organize a Steinbeck Book or Film Discussion Group, with Susan Shillinglaw
• 2000 --U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers, edited with Margarite Fernandez-Olmos
• 1997 --The Latino Reader: An American Literary Tradition from 1542 to the Present Day, edited with Margarite Fernandez-Olmos
• 1993 --Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories, with Ilan Stavans
• 1993 --Bendíceme, América, with Terry Quinn and Ilan Stavans
• 1992 --Latinos in English: A Selected Bibliography of Latino Fiction Writers of the United States, edited

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