Juan Gabriel Vásquez has just won the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Sound of Things Falling, a novel translated from Spanish by Archipelago’s Anne McLean. The Irish Times reported:

She compares her work to that of an actor or a musician. “I interpret. He [she points to Vásquez] wrote the book. I try to make sure it’s his book that I get out there. The original is like a composer’s score or script to me, which I need to recapture and recreate and rewrite as closely as possible to the original. Creative liberty is a necessary part of the process, otherwise the translated novel is not a work of art.”

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