Charlotte Whittle es escritora, editora y traductora anglo-estadounidense. Nacida en Utah, y crecida en Inglaterra, ha radicado en México, Perú y Chile. Recibió su BA en letras inglesas y españolas de la Universidad de Oxford, e hizo una maestría en Hispanic Studies en Brown. Sus traducciones y ensayos han aparecido en The Literary Review, Los Angeles Times, Guernica, Electric Literature, BOMB, Paris Review, entre otras revistas y ha colaborado con Words Without Borders. Durante varios años fue editora en Cardboard House Press, donde editó libros bilingües de poesía española y latinoamericana, y también guió talleres de libros de cartonera. Ha recibido dos premios de PEN Translates, y ha traducido novelas contemporáneas de escritores como Jorge Comensal, Norah Lange y Elisa Victoria. Su traducción más reciente es El infinito en un junco/Papyrus, el bestseller internacional de Irene Vallejo. Ha dado clases de lengua, literatura, y traducción en Brown University y en Brooklyn College. Actualmente vive, traduce, y escribe en Inglaterra y en Nueva York.
People in the Room (And Other Stories, 2018) · The Mutations (FSG, 2019) · We Are Not Refugees: True Stories of the Displaced (Imagine, 2019) · Notes from Childhood (And Other Stories, 2021) · Oldladyvoice (And Other Stories, 2021) · Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World (Alfred A. Knopf , 2022)
The Mutations, by Jorge Comensal, is a comedy tracing the metastasis of Ramón's cancer through his body and in the lives of his family members, colleagues, and doctors, dissecting the experience of illness and mapping the relationships both strengthened and frayed by its wake. Mateo and Paulina, his teenage children, struggle with the temptations of masturbation and binge eating, respectively. Ramón's melancholic oncologist is haunted by the memory of a young patient whom he was unable to save. His selfish pathologist believes Ramón's tumor holds the key to a major ...
For over a decade, human rights journalist Agus Morales has journeyed to the sites of the world's most brutal conflicts and spoken to the victims of violence and displacement. To Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Central African Republic. To Central America, the Congo, and the refugee camps of Jordan. To the Tibetan Parliament in exile in northern India. We are living in a time of massive global change, when negative images of refugees undermine the truth of their humiliation and suffering. By bringing us stories that reveal the individual pain and the global scope of the crisis, ...
A series of luminous vignettes describe the childhood of Argentina's rediscovered modernist writer. Self-contained, interconnected fragments begin with her family's departure to Mendoza in 1910 and end with their return to Buenos Aires and the death of her father in 1915. Lange's notes tell intimate, half-understood stories from the seemingly peaceful realm of childhood, a realm inhabited by an eccentric narrator searching for clues on womanhood and her own identity. She watches: her pubescent older sister, bathing naked in the moonlight; the death of a horse; and herself, a changeable and ...
Amid the oppressive heat, and in the aftermath of the exuberance of Seville’s Expo ’92, Marina spends a chaotic summer with her grandmother while her mother receives hospital treatment for a grave but unnamed illness. There are no rules―swearing, talking about lovers, eating treats and staying up late are all allowed, and it is a summer with endless possibilities. Marina still plays with dolls, but also watches pornographic movies and fantasises about sex and violence. And as she faces the challenging transition to adolescence, she is torn between the safe world of childhood ...
Long before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile were the treasures of the ancient world. Emperors and Pharaohs were so determined to possess them that they dispatched emissaries to the edges of earth to bring them back. When Mark Antony wanted to impress Cleopatra, he knew that gold and priceless jewels would mean nothing to her. So, what did her give her? Books for her library—two hundred thousand, in fact. The long and eventful history of the written word shows that books have always been and will always be a precious—and ...
¿Se imaginan el esfuerzo que fue traducir el libro de Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco? Sin lugar a dudas las traductoras están cambiando el rumbo de la literatura, su trabajo e invaluable, díficl y riguroso y hoy tenemos el gusto de recibir a una de ellas, Charlotte Whittle, quien con su traducción de El infinito en un junto con el título Papyrus ha permitido que un libro magistral llegue a muchos más rincones del mundo. Otros de los magníficos escritores que tiene en sus traducciones son Jorge Comensal, Norah Lange y Elisa Victoria. ...
Hablar de María Gómez de León nos llena de gran orgullo, por ser una joven escritora de origen mexicano que ha logrado entrar y ser parte de uno de los programas de escritura creativa más difíciles y demandantes de los Estados Unidos: el Michener Center for Writers. Poeta y traductora, ha sido parte de la Fundación para las Letras Mexicana, del Community of Writers y del Banff International Literary Translation Center y de Gendered Modernisms, proyecto Resistencias. Historia y Pensamiento Crítico: Literatura, Arte y Cine del Instituto de ...