Mary Ann Newman is the director of the Farragut Fund for Catalan Culture in the US. She is a translator, editor, and occasional writer on

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. She has translated a novel and a short story collection by

Quim Monzó Joaquim Monzó i Gómez (born 15 March 1952), also known as Quim Monzó (), is a contemporary Spanish writer of novels, short stories and discursive prose, mostly in Catalan. In the early 1970s, Monzó reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern ...

, essays by Xavier Rubert de Ventós, and a collection of poems by

Josep Carner Josep Carner i Puigoriol (; Barcelona 9 February 1884 – Brussels 4 June 1970), was a Spanish poet, journalist, playwright and translator. He was also known as ''the Prince of Catalan Poets''. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literat ...

. She graduated from New York University's Washington Square College in 1976 with a

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degree. In 1985, she graduated with a doctorate from

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. As of 2019, her latest translation is ''Private Life'' by

Josep Maria de Sagarra Josep Maria de Sagarra i de Castellarnau (Barcelona, 5 March 1894 – 27 September 1961) was a Catalan-language writer from Barcelona, Catalonia. Biography Born in Barcelona in 1894, in the breast of a family of the Catalan nobility being son ...

, published by Archipelago Books. She was awarded the

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, and with the Ramon Llull International award (2022)

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