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Christina MacSweeney

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Contributor

Christina MacSweeney

Christina MacSweeney was awarded the 2016 Valle Inclán Translation Prize for her translations of Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth. The same novel is also currently a finalist in the Dublin International Literature Prize. She has published two other books by the same author, and her translations of Daniel Saldaña París’s novel Among Strange Victims (shortlisted for the 2017 Best Translated Book Award), and Eduardo Rabasa’s A Zero-Sum Game both appeared in 2016. She has also published translations, articles, and interviews on a wide a variety of platforms, including Words without Borders, Music and Literature, The Literature Hub, and BOMB Magazine, plus in three anthologies: México20, Lunatics, Lovers & Poets: Twelve stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare, and Crude Words: Contemporary Writing from Venezuela. She is now working on texts by Julián Herbert, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, and Elvira Navarro.

Articles by Christina MacSweeney

Yaquina Head

By Jazmina Barrera

Robert Louis Stevenson says that to tour lighthouses is “to visit past centuries.”

Translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

Elvira Navarro: Interview with a Working Author

By Christina MacSweeney

Elvira Navarro is the author of A Working Woman (Two Lines Press, 2017). Navarro’s translator, Christina MacSweeney, spoke with her about her writing process, the thematic threads in her work, and…

Miss Eddy

By Milena Solot

He was a candy you wanted to pop in your mouth and suck real slow.

Translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

Remembering Ricardo Piglia

By Valeria Luiselli

This article originally appeared in Spanish in El País.In my daughter’s bedroom there is a chest full of toys. It’s a large chest, finished in black leather, with copper corners. We…

Translated by Christina MacSweeney

Lindbergh

I told her everything, except for the blood.

Translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

Multilingual

By the Power Vested in Me

By Yuri Herrera

The newlyweds reached his table and Romero hid his repugnance behind hypocritical congratulations.

Translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

Multilingual

Beyond this Darkness and this Silence

The majority of women can’t bear the idea of sleeping with someone they can’t see.

Translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

Multilingual

Notes on the Violence in Sinaloa, Mexico

By Magali Tercero

For two weeks I sensed violence as an invisible force. I only experienced one act of direct intimidation: a thirty-something, ultra-well-dressed woman with five-centimeter nails adorned with precious…

Translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

Multilingual

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