Paul Bowles was one of the most accomplished literary translators of the twentieth century. His early interest in the work of European and Latin American surrealist authors led Bowles to produce translations, believing that English-speaking readers should have access to their work. His initial published translations included poems and stories of Giorgio de Chirico, Jean Ferry, Paul Magritte, and Ramón Sender. His translation of the work of Jorge Luis Borges represents one of the Argentine author’s first appearances in English. In 1945 Bowles edited a special “Tropical Americana” issue of View which introduced the work of a variety of Latin American authors and genres to American readers. Bowles’s translation of Jean Paul Sartre’s Huis Clos, which he titled No Exit, was the first English-language version of this important play and remains one of the most widely-used adaptations. –via http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/bowles/translat.htm

see also: American literature