Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
ROSA RIBAS was born in El Prat de Llobregat in 1963, has a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona. has been a Spanish lecturer at the Goethe University and collaborates with the Cervantes Institute in Frankfurt. She now lives and works in Barcelona again and the city plays a big role in her writing. Rosa is widely considered one of the queens of Spanish noir writing, achieving critical and commercial success in Spain with her Dark Years Trilogy (Siruela) and her Hernández trilogy (Tusquets). Far is her first foray away from crime fiction, into a more menacing social commentary. It is her first book to be translated into English.
CHARLOTTE COOMBE works from French and Spanish into English. She has been shortlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize 2023 for her co-translation, with Isabel Adey, of December Breeze by Marvel Moreno. In 2022 she won the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for her translation of Antonio Diaz Oliva’s short story ‘Mrs Gonçalves and the Lives of Others’, and she was shortlisted for the Valle Inclán Translation Prize 2019 for her translation of Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo.
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
ROSA RIBAS was born in El Prat de Llobregat in 1963, has a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona. has been a Spanish lecturer at the Goethe University and collaborates with the Cervantes Institute in Frankfurt. She now lives and works in Barcelona again and the city plays a big role in her writing. Rosa is widely considered one of the queens of Spanish noir writing, achieving critical and commercial success in Spain with her Dark Years Trilogy (Siruela) and her Hernández trilogy (Tusquets). Far is her first foray away from crime fiction, into a more menacing social commentary. It is her first book to be translated into English.
CHARLOTTE COOMBE works from French and Spanish into English. She has been shortlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize 2023 for her co-translation, with Isabel Adey, of December Breeze by Marvel Moreno. In 2022 she won the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award for her translation of Antonio Diaz Oliva’s short story ‘Mrs Gonçalves and the Lives of Others’, and she was shortlisted for the Valle Inclán Translation Prize 2019 for her translation of Fish Soup by Margarita García Robayo.