My Translations from the First Half of 2022
This year’s first semester was jam-packed with fascinating titles once again. I published translations of books in different languages, genres, sizes and colours. From the theatrical adaptations of Albert Camus to another short novel by Somerset Maugham, from some children’s books to the exciting work of Mercè Ibarz, from the catalogue of the new Lee Friedlander exhibition to comics by big names such as Matt Madden, Charles Burns, Tardi, Marjane Satrapi, Roberto Saviano and Asaf Hanuka, variety was king. And on we ...
Thrilled and honored to be the recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Prize
Every three years, the Federación Internacional de Traductores (FIT) holds a World Congress during which awards and prizes are presented to distinguish professionals from all over the world for their work in very many fields, from translation of fiction and non-fiction to solidarity within the community of translators and interpreters. And this year I have had the great fortune to receive one: the Astrid Lindgren Prize for the translation of literature for children and young adults! The ceremony was held in Cuba of all places at the beginning of June. ...
My Translations from the Second Half of 2021
Another semester is over. And it has brought me a lot of rewarding jobs and a rollercoaster of emotions. I have once again translated books for some of my favourite publishers: Reservoir Books, entreDos, Libros del Zorro Rojo, Salamandra and Literatura Random House. I have also worked once more for the Reina Sofía and have started a new collaboration with a publishing house that I love, Ediciones Invisibles. Bring on ...
My Translations from the First Half of 2021
I’m very happy with the translations I have published this first half of the year, several of them for publishers for whom I had never worked before. They include two graphic novels for Reservoir Books: my favourite comic by Marjane Satrapi and the expanded edition of Kobane Calling by Zerocalcare, plus another comic by Ken Krimstein for Salamandra Graphic. There are also two novels, one by my venerated Andrea Camilleri for Salamandra and another one by Petina Gappah, on which I worked at Looren, for Literatura Random House. Then ...
My Translations from the Second Half of 2020
This very long year has been the most prolific since I started translating and now that it ends I really need to rest and take things easy for a while. But I am also very happy with all the translations I have published in the last six months: a novel by Philip Kerr and a memoir by Andrea Camilleri for Salamandra, Carlota Gurt's first book of short stories for Navona and the novel than won David Nel·lo the Sant Jordi Award for Catedral; wonderful picture books by Farren Phillips and ...
My Translations from the First Half of 2019
Here are the translations I have published during the first half of the year: two novels by Andrea Camilleri and Joan-Lluís-Lluís for Salamandra and Navona; two exhibition catalogues about Berenice Abbott and Sergio Prego and Itziar Okariz for Fundación Mapfre and the Venice Biennale-Koenig Books, and five comics by John Carlin and Oriol Malet, by Ray Bradbury and Tim Hamilton, by Zerocalcare, by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius and by Nick Drnaso for DeBolsillo, Reservoir Books and Salamandra ...
A New Catalogue: Berenice Abbott
So, it seems that I have been translating exhibition catalogues for 25 years now, for I started out in a very distant 1994, working for Fundación La Caixa. Since then, I have been lucky enough to work on many a project for quite a few museums and art centres. This is the last one: at Barcelona Kontext we have been translating the catalogues for Fundación Mapfre's exhibitions into Catalan for a handful of years and a new exhibition has just opened in Barcelona. «Berenice Abbott. Portraits of Modernity» will be ...
Two Wonderful Catalogues
I continue to translate for several museums and art centers regularly, and recently two catalogues on which I have worked have been published. The first is Dadá ruso. 1914-1924, from the exhibition that can be visited at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) until the 22nd of October. This exhibition explores Russian avant-garde art through the perspective of the Anti-art canons associated with the international Dada movement. The catalogue, edited by Margarita Tupitsyn and the Department of Publishing Activities at MNCARS, has been designed by Tipos Móviles. The ...
Bisogna cambiare tutto
I have finally found the time to start the long-delayed renovation of my website—it was vital, mostly for technical reasons. The original site dated back to the year 2000 and the design had stood the test of time quite well, but there were search-engine problems and size issues when using portable devices. Also, I hadn’t updated the information for quite a while, always thinking that I should just redo the whole thing from scratch. Which I am doing now. From now on, it will be much faster, more straightforward and ...