Katherine Silver in Conversation with Aaron Shulman (A virtual event!)

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Celebrating the release of Juan Carlos Onetti’s A Dream Come True, translated by Katherine Silver and published by Archipelago Books, Aaron Shulman joins Katherine Silver in conversation for a virtual event cohosted with DIESEL, A Bookstore. You can register for this free online event here.

Katherine Silver is an acclaimed and award-winning literary translator. Her most recent and forthcoming publications include works by Juan Carlos Onetti, María Sonia Cristoff, Daniel Sada, César Aira, Julio Cortázar, and Julio Ramón Ribeyro. She is the former director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre, and the author of Echo Under Story.

Aaron Shulman is the author of the non-fiction historical narrative The Age of Disenchantments: The Epic Story of Spain’s Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019). His work has appeared in The Believer, The New Republic, The American Scholar, The Wall Street Journal, Hazlitt, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among many other places. He is the co-owner of Splash Literary, an editorial coaching agency that works with academics, literary agents, and publishers to create books for mainstream readers.

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Hector Abad interview with Eleanor Wachtel

 

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The latest episode of Writers & Company with Eleanor Wachtel features one of our favorite Colombian authors, Hector Abad. From the Hay-Cartagena Festival, the prolific Colombian writer and essayist, Hector Abad talks about his moving memoir Oblivion is a memorial to his father, killed in 1987 for his criticism of the repressive Colombian regime.

You can listen to the interview here.