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Christina MacSweeney received the Valle Inclán prize for her translation of Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth, and her translation of Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña París was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award. (Photo credit: Center for Translation) More about this author >
These eleven stories combine gritty surrealism with explosive interior meditations, traversing the fickle, often terrifying terrain between madness and freedom. In the title story, a so-called “non-inventor” brings snow-white rabbits to an island inhabited exclusively by birds, with horrific results. More about this book >
Christina MacSweeney received the Valle Inclán prize for her translation of Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth, and her translation of Among Strange Victims by Daniel Saldaña París was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award. Among the other authors she has translated are: Elvira Navarro (A Working Woman), Verónica Gerber Bicecci (Empty Set, Palabras migrantes/Migrant Words), and Julián Herbert (Tomb Song, The House of the Pain of Others).
(Photo credit: Center for Translation)