拉巴萨(Labasa),斐济瓦努阿岛上最大城市,人口27,949人(2007年)。拉巴萨位于瓦努阿岛东北部,为马库阿塔省首府。拉巴萨建城于1939年,经济以蔗糖业为主,人口多为印度移民。
拉巴萨对自己在传播拉美文学作品的优美语言方面所起的作用持谦虚态度。
Rabassa downplays his role of spreading the good words of Latin American writing.
1967年,拉巴萨因翻译何特扎尔的《跳石于》获国家图书奖。 此后他一直身兼二职。
Since he won a National Book Award for his translation of Cortazar's Hopscotch in 1967, Rabassa has juggled two careers.
有传闻称,《百年孤独》作者加西亚·马尔克斯对格雷戈里·拉巴萨说,他的英文翻译比自己的西班牙原著更好。
Gabriel Garcia Marquez allegedly told Gregory Rabassa that his English translation ofOne Hundred Years of Solitude was better than the Spanish original.
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