Mariana Frenk-Westheim
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Mariana Frenk-Westheim (June 4, 1898 in Hamburg - d. June 24, 2004 in Mexico City) was a writer of Spanish-Mexican prose, hispanist, lecturer of literature, museum expert and one of the most important Mexican translators.
Mariana Frenk-Westheim, a daughter of Jewish parents, left Germany in 1930 together with her husband Julio Frenk and two children and moved overseas to Mexico. After her husband's death she married Paul Westheim, an art historian.
Her most renowned translations are those of a Mexican author Juan Rulfo. In 2002 she published her poems in a volume "Tausend Reime für Große und Kleime. Die Tier- und Dingwelt alphabetisch vorgestellt". During her final years Mariana Frenk-Westheim became blind and was dependent on a wheelchair.