Sergio Chejfec

Sergio Chejfec (1968-2022), originally from Argentina, published numerous works of fiction, poetry, and essays. His novels translated into English: My Two Worlds (Open Letter); The Dark (2012, Open Letter); The Planets (Open Letter, a finalist for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award), Baroni: A Journey (Almost Island); and The Incompletes (Open Letter). Some of his short stories and essays in translation can be read at Asymptote, Words Without Borders, Music & Literature, and elsewhere. Sergio was a fiction writer and essayist. Between 1990 and 2005 he lived in Caracas. He was writer in Residence in the MFA Creative Writing program in Spanish at New York University at the time of his death. He has been translated into English, French, Portuguese, German, Turkish and Hebrew. He was a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Resident of the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.