Claudia Hernandez

Broschiertes Buch

Slash and Burn

Beschreibung

A woman keeps her daughters safe in the wake of war and political trauma in Central and Latin America.

Autor

Claudia Hernández is the highly acclaimed author of five short story collections. Her work has appeared in various anthologies in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Israel and the USA. She was the winner of the Anna Seghers Foundation award (2004), which acknowledges authors interested in making a more just and more humane society through their artistic production. The National Endowment for the Arts has supported the English translation of some of her books that explore the brutal impact of the El Salvadorian Civil War. Hernández won the prestigious Juan Rulfo Prize in 1998 and was one of Hay's Bogota 39 authors in 2007. She currently teaches at the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) in El Salvador. Julia Sanches translates from Portuguese, Spanish, and Catalan. She has translated works by Susana Moreira Marques, Noemi Jaffe, Daniel Galera, Claudia Hernández, and Geovani Martins, among others. Her translations for And Other Stories include Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques and the forthcoming Permafrost by Eva Baltasar. She is a founding member of the Cedilla & Co. translators' collective, and currently lives in Providence, Rhode Island.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: And Other Stories
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 129mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9781911508823
• ISBN-10: 1911508822
• Artikelnr.: 57131888