John Vater

John Vater is an American writer and literary translator. 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. Register Me as Kulbhushan is his third book.

Vater is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Literary Translation Workshop, was a Fulbright–Nehru scholar and has attended the Banff International Literary Translation Centre (BILTC) in Banff, Canada, among other residencies. His translations and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, Words Without Borders, Two Lines: A Journal of Translation, Asia Literary Review, The Bombay Review, Indian Literature and Carnegie India.