Bilingual Reading Series: South America (LIVE)

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Readers

Laura Cesarco Eglin translates from Spanish, Portuguese, Portuñol, and Galician. She cotranslated Fabián Severo’s Night in the North (Eulalia Books). Her translation of Hilda Hilst’s Of Death. Minimal Odes (co•im•press) won the 2019 Best Translated Book Award. Her translations have appeared in Asymptote, Modern Poetry in Translation, The New Yorker, and more. Patrick Blaine translates fiction from Spanish to English, specializing in Chilean Spanish. His two most recent translations are Dark Echoes of the Past and Angels and Loners, both by Ramón Díaz Eterovic. Patrick is Dean of Arts and Humanities at Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. Patricia Cerda is a Chilean author and history professor residing in Berlin. Her most recent novel is Violeta & Nicanor (Planeta). She has two other novels in print, Mestiza (Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial) and Rugendas (Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial). Sergio Waisman has translated three books by Ricardo Piglia, The Underdogs by Mariano Azuela, and three titles for Oxford’s Library of Latin America series. In 2000 he received an NEA Literature Translation Fellowship. His translation of Juan José Saer’s The Regal Lemon Tree is forthcoming from Open Letter Books. Yaki Setton was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1961. He has published seven books of poetry, including Niñas (2004), Nombres propios (2010), La educación musical (2013), Lej-Lejá (2016), and El beso (2018). A Musical Education (translated by Sergio Waisman) is forthcoming in translation from Toad Press. http://yakisetton.com.ar. (opens in new tab)During a thirty-year career in marketing, Pedro Lopez frequently translated and culturally adapted communication and research materials between English and Spanish. He has spent the last five years developing his craft through formal education and ad hoc training. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Literary Translation at Boston University. Patricia Odriozola has a master’s degree in Creative Writing. Her books include Dios era argentino, El brazo de tu madre, La equivocación de Herr Doktor, and Felisberto (novels), and Apocalíptica & Centenaria (essay). Felisberto was also published in Italian by Orizzonte Atlantico. Her latest novel, X un libro, will be published by Ediciones Franz (Spain).