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Issue 30.

June ,

2024

In our thirtieth issue, we delve into a little-known facet of a towering figure of Latin American letters with a cover feature on renowned Argentine author César Aira, focusing not on his own writing but on his broad-ranging career as a translator. We also shine a spotlight on a globally relevant genre that is changing both what and how the world reads with a special dossier on Latin American young adult literature. Along with these features, we present the winning essay of our second annual literary essay contest (“Imperceptible Anatomies” by Mexican writer Guillermo Fajardo), a meditation on Chileanness from Gabriela Mistral, writing by and about 2020 Neustadt Prize winner Ismail Kadare of Albania, and reflections on Black and Indigenous identity from Brazil. The issue closes with exclusive book reviews, previews of forthcoming books in translation, reflections on the translator’s craft, and the second installment of our ongoing collaboration with literary podcast Hablemos, escritoras.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Editor’s Note: June 2024

By Marcelo Rioseco

Featured Author: César Aira

César Aira: A Writer Who Translates, a Translator Who Writes

By Aixa Zlatar

Shakespeare by Aira: An Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Approach to Translation

By María Belén Riveiro, Philippa Page, Jennifer Arnold & Jennifer Richards

Prologue to Cymbeline

By César Aira

Translation According to Aira

By María Belén Riveiro

A Disproportionate Figure: An Interview with Daniel Mecca on César Aira

By Juan Camilo Rincón

Dossier: Latin American Young Adult Literature

An Excerpt from Never Tell Anyone Your Name

By Federico Ivanier

“Writing for Young People is Natural”: A Conversation with Claire Storey and Federico Ivanier

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon

Latin American YA in Translation

By David Jacobson

Reading Practices in Virtual Environments

By Daniela Ottolenghi

Second Annual LALT Literary Essay Contest

WINNING ESSAY: Imperceptible Anatomies

By Guillermo Fajardo

LALT CLASSICS: Gabriela Mistral

Less Condor and More Huemul

By Gabriela Mistral

ESSAYS

Susana Thénon and the Distance between Words and Memory

By Ignacio Oliden

The Poet as Diplomat: Octavio Paz in India

By Indranil Chakravarty

Laughing Allowed

By Paul Montjoy Forti

INTERVIEWS

Writing as Mise-en-scène: An Interview with Jazmina Barrera

By Juan Camilo Rincón & Natalia Consuegra

National Literature as an Anxiety Bookshelf: A (Pending) Conversation with Osdany Morales about Lengua materna

By Irina Troconis & Osdany Morales

“I am a better translator for being a foreigner”: A Conversation with Bruna Dantas Lobato

By Arthur Malcolm Dixon

World Literature from WLT

Dead Storms and Literature’s New Horizon: The 2020 Neustadt Prize Lecture

By Ismail Kadare

Why Should We Read Ismail Kadare?

By David Bellos

Surviving and Subverting the Totalitarian State: A Tribute to Ismail Kadare

By Kapka Kassabova

Fiction

An Excerpt from Estrogen

By Leticia Martin

On Miss Venezuela’s Grand Night

By Xavier Stanziola

Death and Chimes

By Kelly Martínez-Grandal

POETRY

Three Poems for the House of the Mother Goddess

By Efraín Bartolomé

“Bauhaus” and other poems

By Olga Saavedra

“The Onion Offering” and other poems

By Javier Alvarado

Indigenous Literature

Three Poems from Eu sou macuxi e outras histórias

By Trudruá Dorrico

Brazilian Literature

Black Dad

By Sheyla Smanioto

Four Flash Fiction Stories

By Cristiane Sobral

Translation Previews and New Releases

From Savagery, translated by Katie Brown

By Alejandra Banca

Divided Island, translated by Lizzie Davis & Kevin Gerry Dunn

By Daniela Tarazona

The Novices of Lerna, translated by Jordan Landsman

By Ángel Bonomini

ON TRANSLATION

The World in a List, or How Books Travel

By Gabriela Adamo & Victoria Rodriguez Lacrouts

Excerpts from Living in Translation

By Laura Wittner

Of Rabbits and Translation: A Dialogue between Antonio Díaz Oliva and Lisa Dillman

By Antonio Díaz Oliva & Lisa Dillman

Hablemos, escritoras in LALT

Hablemos, escritoras (Episode 456): Esmeralda Santiago

By Adriana Pacheco

Hablemos, escritoras (Episode 121): Mónica Ojeda

By Adriana Pacheco

Hablemos, escritoras (Episode 460): Clara Obligado

By Adriana Pacheco

Nota Bene

Nota Bene: June 2024

By LALT Team

Book Reviews

FINALIST REVIEW: Nuevas cartas náuticas by Adalber Salas Hernández

By Leonardo Rivas Lobo

FINALIST REVIEW: Las indignas by Agustina Bazterrica

By Gustavo Ulises Méndez Martínez

FINALIST REVIEW: Nova Provincia by Pablo Figueroa

By Ivelisse Álvarez

CorazoNadas by Ana Clavel

By Claudia Cavallin

Las lectoras del Quijote by Alejandra Jaramillo Morales

By Kevin Sedeño-Guillén

Francisca, princesa del Perú by Alonso Cueto

By Alonso Rabí do Carmo

Miguel Hernández y César Vallejo: Versos en convergencia by César Ferreira (Ed.)

By Arcadio Bolaños Acevedo

I’m a Fool to Want You by Camila Sosa Villada, translated by Kit Maude

By Colm McKenna

Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case by Elsa Drucaroff, translated by Slava Faybysh

By Pablo Baler

estimado representante / dear parent or guardian by Isadoro Saturno, translated by E.R. Pulgar

By Carlos Egaña

Manual de poesía para resolver problemas domésticos by Rafael Courtoisie

By Hebert Benítez Pezzolano

El minuto by Julián Mejía Tobón

By Néstor Mendoza

Guapo by Miguel Yarull

By Yoss

Uno, en verdad, hace lo que puede by Arturo Gutiérrez Plaza

By Alberto Hernández

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