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from Paula Abramo, FIAT LUX

10/29/2019

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Here’s a new poem translation from my latest project, Paula Abramo’s book Fiat Lux, from Mexico. Click the link for translation, original, and translator’s note, all in the Fall 2019 edition of Asymptote translation e-mag.

And here are five more in January 2020 issue of Brooklyn Rail InTranslation.

And  two more in Tupelo Quarterly, and another in Another Chicago Magazine, and two more in Lunch Ticket.

In print mags, there's one in The Bitter Oleander  (Spring 2020), buy it here .
And one just out (Sept 2020) in Hayden's Ferry Review #66, buy it here.

More to come, in print, in Fall 2020 issues of Southern Review and Salamander.

Now seeking a publisher for the whole book!


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"I Am Not a Monster," detective novel from Spain

11/13/2018

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Reviews, Columns, Readings . . .

7/2/2018

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Selected by the American Booksellers' Association for the Summer/Fall 2018 "Indies Introduce" list of ten best author-debut books, and for their August 2018 "Next Great Reads."

"A rare achievement in which a reader comes out the other end wanting to start again. A bold and clever tale with a unique voice. -- Rebecca George, Volumes Bookcafé, Chicago.

"A wild, successful satire of Ecuadorian politics and supernatural encounters." -- Publisher's Weekly

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"One part Thomas Pynchon, one part Gabriel García Márques, and one part Raymond Chandler, Alemán's novel is a concoction of political thriller and absurdist literary mystery that never fails to entertain." -- Kirkus Reviews

"A condemnation not only of the corrupt businessmen and the criminal gangs that rule Poso Wells, but also of the violence against women that plagues Latin America's real slums." -- The New Yorker

"Alemán's voice, as translated from the Spanish by Dick Cluster, is fresh and deliciously absurd." -- BBC.com, "10 Smartest Beach Reads of 2018

"A noir, feminist, eco-thriller? Say no more." -- Feminist Press summer reads

"Dick Cluster, the translator, has fused the poetic with the tabloid and brought one of Latin America's rising literary starts to readers in North America. 'Poso Wells' can be read with pleasure in one long sitting and then reread for nuances and subtleties that surprise and entertain." -- SF Chronicle

"Though the Spanish original was published in 2007, Dick Cluster's new translation offers a stunning commentary on today's befuddling anglophone world.  An intriguing exploration of what drives people into action in a world that makes no sense." -- Full Stop


Video of our reading and talk at Brookline Booksmith,
Oct 2018

Entrevista en El Espectador, de Colombia, sobre mi proceso de traducir la novela.

My translation of Gabriela's story "Superheroes" is in the current (Jan/Feb 2019) issue of Kenyon Review. Audio file here.

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Winner of 2018 Northern California Book Award for fiction translation:
"A delightful and one could say overdue project, with an informative and entertaining introduction -- a must read -- about the history, presence, language, and culture of baseball in Latin America."

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Spitball magazine: "Fresh, exciting material, these 18 short stories from accomplished Latin American writers not only reflect a love of baseball equal to our own, they demonstrate fine literary talent previously inaccessible to us. Highly recommended."


L.A. Review of Books,  article on Cuba, D.R., baseball, fiction, translation. . .
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Island Books, Seattle, column on my Cuba books

Review, Larry Rohter, Revista

Review, Paul Hagen, mlb.com

Review, Bill Littlefield, Only a Game



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