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Rosalind Harvey

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Rosalind Harvey

United Kingdom

Rosalind Harvey has translated many writers including Juan Pablo Villalobos, Elvira Navarro, Alberto Barrera Tyszka, and Enrique Vila-Matas. Their work has been shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Oxford–Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Harvey is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a founding member of the Emerging Translators Network.

Articles by Rosalind Harvey

A black and white Bruegel engraving portraying several figures inside a chaotic room filled with...

"The Alchemist" by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public domain.

The Alchemy of Literature: A Lecture on Pain

By Guadalupe Nettel

In this year's Lancaster International Fiction Lecture from Litfest's “Autumn Weekend,” award-winning writer Guadalupe Nettel considers how writers turn the pain of human experience—physical, emotional, psychological—into moments of literary gold.

Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

Really Real Dragons

By Laia Jufresa

When I go out with my daughter, I herd her along, trying to keep her two meters away from anyone who approaches.

Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

The Ape

By Luis de Lión

“He really looks like his monkey, doesn’t he?”

Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

From the Translator: More than Football

By Rosalind Harvey

When Jethro Soutar first asked me if I wanted to take part in his anthology of football-related writing, I was, shall we say, less than keen. I’m not keen on football, beyond (ahem) a certain gratuitous…

Queens Football

By Alberto Salcedo Ramos

“You're so gay you even want to get it on with men in cartoon strips!”

Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

Ancient Plumbing

By Milagros Socorro

Her Lycra leggings looked as if they’d been galvanized onto her thighs by the sun’s blowtorch.

Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

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From the Translator: On Translating Fabrizio Mejía Madrid

By Rosalind Harvey

It’s funny the paths one is led down by what one gets to translate. After having translated Juan Pablo Villalobos’s stunning debut, Down the Rabbit Hole, last year, I now seem, somewhat bewilderingly…

The Mystery of the Parakeet, the Rooster, and the Nanny Goat

By Fabrizio Mejía Madrid

The parakeet is cocaine, the rooster is the marijuana and the nanny goat is an AK-47 assault rifle.

Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey

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A flowering bush, a leafy shrub, a bonsai tree, and a cactus stand in a row in front of a white...

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Bonsai

By Guadalupe Nettel

If I was a cactus, what kind of plant was Midori?

Translated from Spanish by Rosalind Harvey