“Pink Slime” by Fernanda Tr铆as & Heather Cleary [NBA 2024]
When the National Book Award for Translated Literature longlist was announced the other week, I realized that I hadn't read聽any聽of the books on the list for the first time in . . . ages. So I started this series to educate myself before the winner is announced. You can find all the posts in this series ...
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Available Now: THE INCOMPLETES by Sergio Chejfec and Heather Cleary
鈥淎 masterfully nested narrative where writing鈥攊ts presence on the page, its course through time, its prismatic dispersion of meaning鈥攊s the true protagonist.鈥 鈥擧ernan Diaz,聽author of聽In the Distance 鈥淣ow I am going to tell the story of something that happened one night years ago, and the events of the ...
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Comemadre [Why This Book Should Win]
Check in daily for new Why This Book Should Win posts covering all thirty-five titles longlisted for the 2019 Best Translated Book Awards.聽 Aaron Bell is a wage laborer and Doctor of Philosophy. Comemadre聽by Roque Larraquy, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary (Argentina, Coffee House Press) Comemadre ...
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Variations on a Theme: Fiston Mwanza Mujila鈥檚 "Tram 83" [BTBA 2016]
This week’s Best Translated Book Award post is from Heather Cleary, translator of Sergio Chejfec, Oliverio Girondo, professor at Sarah Lawrence, and co-founder of the Buenos Aires Review. For more information on the BTBA, “like” our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter. And check back here each week for a ...
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Border Crossings and a Third Language [BTBA 2016]
This week’s Best Translated Book Award post is from Heather Cleary, translator of Sergio Chejfec, Oliverio Girondo, professor at Sarah Lawrence, and co-founder of the Buenos Aires Review. For more information on the BTBA, “like” our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter. And check back here each week for a ...
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On Yoel Hoffmann鈥檚 "Moods" [BTBA 2016]
This week’s Best Translated Book Award post is by translator and co-founder of the Buenos Aires Review, Heather Cleary. For more information on the BTBA, “like” our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter. And check back here each week for a new post by one of the judges. Earlier this week, I returned home ...
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Abilio Est茅vez and His Exile from Cuba [Month of a Thousand Forests]
Abilio Est茅vez is next up in the Month of a Thousand Forests series. Arcade brought out a couple of his books a decade ago, but the piece he chose as his “aesthetic highpoint” (excerpted below) has never appeared in English translation. Just a reminder, you can buy A Thousand Forests in One Acorn for only $15 ...
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