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Sara Mesa
Sara Mesa was born in Madrid but has lived in Seville since childhood. She is the author of six novels and three short story collections, among them the novels Cuatro por cuatro (finalist for the Premio Herralde), Cicatriz (the Ojo Crítico de RNE prize) and Cara de pan, as well as the story collection Mala letra – all published by Anagrama. Her work has been translated into ten languages. Her most recent novel, Un amor, was chosen as book of the year 2020 by El País, El Cultural and La Vanguardia, and received the Los Libreros Recomiendan [Booksellers' Recommendation] prize in the fiction category.

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Fiction

October 2021

Sara Mesa

TR. Martha Sprackland

Fiction

October 2021

At that time our experience with death was very limited. Sometimes someone’s grandfather or grandmother would die, like a domino falling when its turn...

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poetry

October 2012

Saint Anthony the Hermit Tortured by Devils

Stephen Devereux

poetry

October 2012

  Sassetta has him feeling no pain, comfortable even, Yet stiffly dignified at an odd angle like the statue...

Art

March 2013

Strangely Ordinary: Ron Mueck's art of the uncanny

Anouchka Grose

Art

March 2013

Since the Stone Age, people have been concerned with the problem of how to represent life.   Cave paintings...

Feature

Issue No. 19

Ill Feelings

Alice Hattrick

Feature

Issue No. 19

My mother recently found some loose diary pages I wrote in my first year of boarding school, aged eleven,...

 

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