The translations by Juan Ramon Jimenez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because many of them were published under the name of his wife, Zenobia Camprubi Aymar, along with many of his poems. Close analysis of the style, along with personal letters and diaries, reveals his significant participation in these works. The translations were a crucial source of psychological and financial support during the long exile from Spain after the Civil War. Other elements in the process were the Nobel-winners Rabindranath Tagore, William...
The translations by Juan Ramon Jimenez, first resident of the Caribbean to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, have been neglected, likely because man...