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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

May 2013

Flatlands

Saskia Hamilton

poetry

May 2013

Horses and geese in a sodden field. Solitaries with luggage on a wet platform. Postage-stamp house on a bit...

poetry

June 2012

At Night the Wife Makes Her Point: Two Poems

Gioconda Belli

TR. Charles Castaldi

poetry

June 2012

AT NIGHT, THE WIFE MAKES HER POINT   No. I don’t have Cindy Crawford’s legs. I haven’t spent my...

feature

January 2014

Afterword: The Death of the Translator

George Szirtes

feature

January 2014

1. The translator meets himself emerging from his lover’s bedroom. So much for fidelity, he thinks. 2. Je est...

 

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