Chris Andrews (89 works by)
Born: Established: 1962 Newcastle ;
Gender: Male

BiographyHistory

Dr Chris Andrews holds a BSc (Melbourne), BA Hons and MA (Melbourne), and a PhD (Melbourne). He has translated three books by the Chilean writer Roberto Bolano: By Night in Chile (2003), Distant Star (2004) and Last Evenings on Earth (2006) as well as Varamo by Cesar Aira.. Andrews has been Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish Studies. In 2009, he took up a position at the University of Western Sydney where he has taught literary translation and comparative literature in the School of Humanities and Languages.

Awards

2005 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Translation Prize and PEN Medallion
2005 winner International Awards Premio Valle Inclan Prize For his translation of Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño.
2004 runner up International Awards Premio Valle Inclan Prize For his translation of By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño.

Awards for Works

Lime Green Chair , 2013 poetry selected work
2012 winner International Awards The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize
Cut Lunch , 2002 poetry selected work
2003 winner Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry
2003 winner FAW Anne Elder Poetry Award
Sandwiches , Island , Spring/Summer no. 80/81 1999 poetry single work
1999 winner Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize