Mary Watson is a South African writer. She published her debut story collection, Moss, in 2004 and was the 2006 winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story ‘Jungfrau’. She is the author of the literary thriller The Cutting Room and a contributor to several anthologies. Her work has been translated into languages including Arabic, Italian, German and Dutch. She currently lives in Galway, Ireland.
Notes on the Translators
Lucy Greaves translates from Portuguese, Spanish and French. The winner of the 2013 Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize, she was one of the Free Word Centre’s two Translators in Residence during 2014. Her translations of Eliane Brum’s One, Two and Mamen Sánchez’s Happiness is a Cup of Tea with You are forthcoming in late 2014 and early 2015 respectively. Her work has been published by Granta and Words Without Borders, among others.
Jethro Soutar is a translator of Spanish and Portuguese. He has a particular interest in Ibero-African literature and his translation of the Equatorial Guinean novel By Night the Mountain Burns, by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, is published by And Other Stories. Soutar recently co-edited and co-translated The Football Crónicas for Ragpicker Press.
Frank Wynne has won three major prizes for his translations, including the 2002 IMPAC for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He is also the translator of Tomás Eloy Martínez’s Purgatory, Marcelo Figueras’s Kamchatka and Carlos Acosta’s Pig’s Foot.
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Beirut39: New Writing from the Arab World
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