John Vater

John Vater is an American literary translator and writer. He is co-translator of The Play of Dolls: Stories by Hindi author Kunwar Narain and co-author of More Than the Eye Can See: Memoirs of Gopinath Pillai. He is now translating the Hindi novel Register the Name Kulbhushan, Please by Alka Saraogi (forthcoming). His translations have appeared in several literary journals, such as Ploughshares and Words Without Borders. He was a resident translator at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) in Banff, Canada, and has an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa