The essayistic work of Sergio Ramírez Mercado (Masatepe 1942), the newest recipient of the Cervantes Prize, is vast and reflects a great variety of interests that have occupied the writer…
Denise Kripper is Associate Professor of Spanish in the Modern Languages & Literatures Department at Lake Forest College. Her research interests include Latin American Literature and Translation Studies. She has a PhD in Literature & Cultural Studies from Georgetown University and a BA in Translation from the Lenguas Vivas Institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the author of the monograph Narratives of Mistranslation: Fictional Translators in Latin American Literature (Routledge, 2023) and the co-editor, with Delfina Cabrera, of The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation (Routledge, 2023). She has worked extensively as an interpreter and audiovisual translator, and her literary translations and academic work on translation have been featured in World Literature Today, Asymptote, Farlag, Mutatis Mutandis, and Trans: Revista de Traductología, among other publications. Her latest book-length translations into Spanish include the children’s book La piel en la que vives by Michael Tyler, illustrated by David Csicsko (Chicago Children’s Museum, 2022) and the memoir in essays by Melissa Febos, Nena (Chai Editora, 2022). She is currently working on the translation of Argentine writer Adriana Riva’s debut novel Salt, forthcoming in English via Veliz Books. She lives in Chicago, where she’s a founding member of the Third Coast Translators Collective.
The essayistic work of Sergio Ramírez Mercado (Masatepe 1942), the newest recipient of the Cervantes Prize, is vast and reflects a great variety of interests that have occupied the writer…
At Universidad Santa Maria in Caracas there have been a series of weekly talks on varied forms of Culture, including what we call literary genres. Based on the skill and…
Like those who dance in a swamp / and do not fear sinking there are those who draw an abyss / and do not fear falling / like the seam…
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