John Biguenet is Robert Hunter Distinguished University Professor at Loyola University, New Orleans, USA. His publications include "Oyster" (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, 2002), "The Torturer's Apprentice: Stories" (Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, 2001), "Theories of Translation: An Anthology of Essays from Dryden to Derrida" (co-editor with Rainer Schulte, University of Chicago Press, 1992), and "Foreign Fictions" (Random House/Vintage, 1978). He served as the first guest columnist of "The New York Times" (2005-2006). He has received an O. Henry Award for short fiction, and his nonfiction, po...