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Anna Kushner

Contributor

Anna Kushner

United States

Anna Kushner translates from Spanish, French, and Portuguese. She is the translator of the books The Halfway House and Leapfrog by Guillermo Rosales (New Directions), The Autobiography of Fidel Castro by Norberto Fuentes (W.W. Norton), Jerusalem by Gonçalo Tavares (Dalkey Archive), Heretics and The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Sabers and Utopias by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), among other works. Her writing has appeared in Cuba Counterpoints, Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2008, The Bucks County Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Ep;phany, Newtown Literary, and Wild River Review.

Articles by Anna Kushner

The Last Judgment

By Fátima Bettencourt

I was overcome by the unshakeable conviction that it was the end of the world.

Translated from Portuguese by Anna Kushner

Fidel in the Literary Imagination

By Anna Kushner

I was born to Cuban exiles after the Revolution. For me, Fidel was always there, openly when his image paraded across the TV news in our Philadelphia living room, or implicitly when I watched movies like…

Ernst and Mylia

By Gonçalo M. Tavares

Ernst Spengler was alone in his attic apartment, ready to throw himself out the already open window when, suddenly, the telephone rang. Once, twice, three times, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,…

Translated from Portuguese by Anna Kushner

Boarding Home

By Guillermo Rosales

Introduction: Willie in Miami, Rey in Nueva Yorkby Norberto FuentesThree of us made up that sad brotherhood at the end of the Sixties in Cuba: Guillermo Rosales, Reinaldo Arenas, and their faithful servant.…

Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner

from Chapter 12, The Autobiography of Fidel Castro

By Norberto Fuentes

(Circa) May 29The rebel group moves to the west of the Pico Turquino,1 in the Plata Alta region, where they quickly settle in.If you ever read Carlos Franqui’s Diary of the Cuban Revolution, you’ll…

Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner

Readymade

By Álvaro Enrigue

He was apt to score unbelievable goals whenever he could keep his balance on the field, something that didn't always happen: occasionally he fell over while fighting for the ball and couldn't get back up again because he was too drunk.

Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner

On the Death of the Author

By Álvaro Enrigue

Written on my soul is your face And when I write about you it is you that I desire -Garcilaso de la Vega There are stories that seem impossible to tell. It must be at least ten years since I traveled…

Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner

Multilingual

from Chapter 1, The Autobiography of Fidel Castro

By Norberto Fuentes

This is the bucolic and archetypal Cuban landscape that I myself will destroy thirty years hence.

Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner

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