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Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Juan Gabriel Vásquez has published eight works of fiction (available in thirty languages), including Ruido de las cosas al caer (2011; The Sound of Things Falling, 2012), La forma de las ruinas (2016; The Shape of the Ruins, 2018), and Volver la vista atrás (2020; Retrospective, 2023), winner of the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennal Award. Translator of works by Conrad, Hugo, and others, he is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and received Spain’s Orden Isabel la Católica. In 2022 he was honored by the Royal Society of Literature. This essay was the prologue for a Spanish edition of Bartleby, the Scrivener, published by Barcelona’s Editorial Navona.
Jessica Powell
Jessica Powell is the translator of Antonio Benítez Rojo’s Woman in Battle Dress (2015), Silvina Ocampo’s The Promise (co-translated with Suzanne Jill Levine) (2019), Gabriela Wiener’s Nine Moons (2020), and Sergio Missana’s The Transentients (2021). Her translation of Pedro Cabiya’s novel Reinbou is forthcoming in 2024.