John Biguenet's fiction,
poetry, and essays have appeared recently in such journals as The New
York Times Book Review, the Washington Post, Esquire, Granta, Story, Zoetrope:
All-Story, DoubleTake, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and Ploughshares
as well as in various anthologies. Oyster, a novel, was published
by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, in the U.S. and by Orion
Books in the U.K. The Torturer's Apprentice, a collection of his
stories, was published by Ecco/HarperCollins and by Orion Books in the
U.K. Both books will be published in Hebrew translation by Matar
Publishing Company in Tel Aviv and in French translation by Editions
Albin Michel in Paris. His books The Craft of Translation
and Theories of Translation, co-edited with Rainer Schulte, were
published by The University of Chicago Press; Theories of Translation
is forthcoming in Japanese translation by Babel, Inc. An earlier book,
Foreign
Fictions, was published by Random House. Biguenet edited over
fifty issues of
The New Orleans Review, an international journal
of film, art, and literature. His radio play Wundmale, which premiered
on Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Germany's largest radio network, was rebroadcasted
by Österreichischer Rundfunk, the Austrian national radio and television
network. His stage play, The Vulgar Soul, was presented in the 2004
Festival of New Southern Plays and will be a featured production of the
2004-2005 season of the Southern Rep Theatre. Two of his stories
have been featured in Selected Shorts at Symphony Space on Broadway. His
work has received an O. Henry Award and a Harper's Magazine Writing
Award among other distinctions, and his stories have been reprinted in
Prize Stories 2000: The O. Henry Awards and The Best American
Mystery Stories 2002 and cited in The Pushcart Prizes and in
The
Best American Short Stories for 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2002 as well
as in Prize Stories 2002: The O. Henry Awards. He has served two
terms as president of the American Literary Translators Association. Formerly
Writer-in-Residence at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and at
the University of Texas at Dallas, he is currently the Robert Hunter Distinguished
Professor at Loyola University in New Orleans, where he has been honored
with the institution's Dux Academicus award for outstanding teaching, scholarship,
and service.
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