Background
Esther was born on June 29, 1962, in Auburn, California, United States. She is the daughter of Sydney Allen and Donna Lee Sharp.
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Esther was born on June 29, 1962, in Auburn, California, United States. She is the daughter of Sydney Allen and Donna Lee Sharp.
Allen obtained Bachelor of Arts degree at Scripps College in 1983. Eight years later she finished New York University and got Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Allen started her career as a managing editor at Grand Street Magazine in New York, United States in 1992 and held the position till 1993, when she started to serve as an English verbatim reporter at United Nations Secretariat in New York. From 1994 till 1995 Esther Allen acted as an assistant visiting professor of Spanish at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Also, Allen worked as a contributing editor at Trafika in Prague, Czech Republic and at Mandorla in Mexico, Mexico.
Moreover, Allen directed the work of the PEN Translation Fund since its founding in 2003 to 2010. In 2005 she co-founded the PEN World Voices Festival. Esther edited "To Be Translated or Not To Be" for PEN International and the Institut Ramon Lull which was published in English, Catalan and German and distributed at the 2007 Frankfurt Book Fair. Her essays, translations and interviews have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the Paris Review, Words Without Borders, Bomb, LitHub, and other publications.
Currently she heads the Development Committee of the American Literary Translators Association, and serves on the board of Writers Omi, part of Omi International Arts Center, on the Advisory Council to the Spanish-language program at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and on the Selection Committee for the French Voices translation subvention program of the Services culturels Français.
Allen translated several writings, such as Fernando Garcia Ponce (written by Maria Lluisa Borras), Modernities and Other Writings (written by Blaise Cendrars and Monique Chefdor), Nostalgia for Death & Hieroglyphs of Desire (written by Xavier Villaurrutia) etc.
Esther married Kim J. Landsman, an attorney, on October 24, 1990. They have two children -Theo and Jacob.
