POSO WELLS

 Powell's Bookstore "Best Fiction of 2018" and Staff Pick, June 2021. American Booksellers Association "Indies Introduce" selection. Article  in Paris Review, interview in L.A. Review of Books. Get this book from City Lights.
NEA fellowship grant to translate Alemán's latest novel, HUMO (SMOKE), forthcoming City Lights, fall 2025.
Video of Gabriela and me talking here.

If I Could Live on the Vision Without Trying to Say It

From University of Alabama MFA Book Arts and the Taller de Serigrafía in Havana: This bilingual hand-made art book is a collaboration between poet Pedro de Jesús, translator Dick Cluster, artist Norberto Marrero, and University of Alabama MFA Book Arts. Limited edition copies are available from Vamp and Tramp Booksellers. Proceeds from sales will fund future collaborations with artists in Cuba.
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A CORNER OF THE WORLD
Mylene Fernandez Pintado

“Cluster renders Marian’s confiding, conversational voice into a flexible and engaging English prose . . . a love letter to the city of Havana in all its chaos, complexity, and beauty” - Reading in Translation

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New Fernández-Pintado story translation in AGNI 98.  And here's one online, in ANOTHER CHICAGO MAGAZINE, to read right now.

OPHELIAS 
Aida Bahr

Eight stories of women on the edge of madness. Unusual for Cuban literature in translation, they come from eastern Cuba, not from Havana

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VITAL SIGNS
Pedro de Jesus

More stories from Cuba, following our previous collaboration, Frigid Tales.
“De Jesús’s subtleties have been masterfully translated into English by another artist, Dick Cluster.” – Emilio Bejel, UC Davis

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WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS

Here are links to my translations and commentary in the leading literary translation online magazine.

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LEARNING FROM PETE SEEGER
Dick Cluster

In 1967, at the Newport Folk Festival, Pete Seeger introduced me to José Martí. This was via his version of Guantanamera with Martí’s Versos Sencillos set to the melody of the popular song. He also introduced me to what translation is all about . . .

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NONFICTION TRANSLATIONS

I also do nonfiction translation of books and articles in the fields of history, politics, culture, sociology, economics, geography, and anthropology. My translations of scholarly work from Mexico, Cuba, Spain, and South America have been published by academic presses including U. of California, Harvard, U. of Florida, SUNY, Oxford, Routledge, Palgrave, Cengage, Juan de la Cuesta, and El Colegio de La Frontera Norte, and periodicals including Orion, Nieman Reports, Religion and Society, Revue européenne des migrations internationales, International Journal of Latin American Religions, Culture Health & Sexuality, Papeles de población, and others.