Sheila Glaser


Disciplines: Literature – translation
Disciplines: Literature – translation
Based in New York, NY
Residencies: 2003

Sheila Faria Glaser is an editor at the New York Times Magazine and has translated Jean Baudrillard’s Simulacra and Simulation and Michel Serre’s The Troubador of Knowledge.

At MacDowell, she completed a translation of a Cape Verdean novel, "The Last Will and Testament of Sr. Napumoceno da Silva Araujo", by Germano Almeida to be published by New Directions later that fall. Previous translations include Michael Serres's "The Troubador of Knowledge" and Jean Baudrillard's, "Simulacra and Simulation" (both University of Michigan Press)

Studios

Calderwood

Sheila Glaser worked in the Calderwood studio.

In the winter of 1998, motivated by his passion for reading, Stanford Calderwood donated funds for a new writers’ studio. Stanford Calderwood, a newspaperman in his youth who later went on to establish an investment firm, was a lover of nonfiction and was a member of MacDowell’s board of directors…

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