Mary Ann Newman

Mary Ann Newman is a translator, scholar and arts administrator. She translates literature from Catalan and Spanish to English and has published works by Quim Monzó, Josep Carner, and Josep Maria de Sagarra.

Newman is the executive director of the Farragut Fund for Catalan Culture in the United States, cochair of the PEN Translation Committee, and the president-delegate of the Premi Internacional Catalunya [Catalonia International Prize]. She is is the former director of the Catalan Center at New York University, which was an affiliate of the Institut Ramon Llull. 

Newman’s honors include the Creu de Sant Jordi [Cross of St. George], the highest honor awarded by the Catalan government, which she received in 1998, and the 2017 North American Catalan Society Prize.