Happy publication to Layla Martinez & translators Sophie Hughes& Annie McDermott!

'Tense, chilling' Mariana Enriquez

'Lays bare intergenerational horror, feminine rage & the taking back of power' Stylist Magazine

Class-conscious horror that drags generations of monsters into the☀️

Absolutely loved watching this reading from NOT A RIVER by the brilliant David Jonsson! Maybe the closest a translator can come to knowing what it feels like to be translated...

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We could not be more honoured to have Annie McDermott lead a Spanish workshop at Bristol Translates 2024.

Annie's translation of NOT A RIVER by Selva Almada Charco Press has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize. Congratulations!

'The first draft of a chapter is like a shipwreck on the page. I return to it and keep returning; I tinker and fix and reassemble.'

Very much enjoyed this The Booker Prizes interview with Itamar Vieira Junior and Johnny Lorenz about CROOKED PLOW

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Powerful words from Selva Almada here on Argentina's new far-right government and its efforts to 'suppress and destroy' the country's cultural heritage

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“Martínez’s debut novel takes cabin fever to the max in this story of a grandmother,  granddaughter, and their haunted house.”

WOODWORM (translated by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott) is featured on The Millions.

It's only a matter of time now. 🧱🧱🧱

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I adored Tidal Waters by Velia Vidal, trans. Annie McDermott, which is coming out with Charco Press in May. The first Afro-Colombian novel I've read, the first to evoke the Chocó–Darién, the first to mention the Emberá and the Wounaan and the communities who are never given voice.

I spoke to the wonderful Anil of Harshaneeyam Podcast about rays, rivers and how reading Cormac McCarthy taught me how to translate Selva Almada 🎣

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Please do donate to Arts Emergency if you can. Their work is vital. I was honoured to mentor for them. Every time I read their manifesto I punch the air.

'Austere yet deeply humane, and exhilaratingly accomplished.'

Over at The TLS, read Michael Kerrigan's wonderful review of Selva Almada's trilogy, of which NOT A RIVER is now longlisted for the #InternationalBooker2024 . The Booker Prizes Annie McDermott

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“Pump and reel, pump and reel. She’s hugging the bottom. Get her up, get her up.”

Here you can read the start of Selva Almada’s NOT A RIVER, a translation that taught me considerably more ray-specific fishing terminology than I’ll probably ever need again thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

WOODWORM, translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott, is coming soooooooooon.

'It is generally the case in Almada’s Argentina that structures – physiological, familial and societal – are inadequate to the human feelings they are expected to contain.'

Michael Kerrigan on Selva Almada’s “Trilogy of Men”
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‘Tilo, the kid, aboard the same boat, leans back, the rod butt at his hip, turning the reel handle, tugging the line: a glittering thread in the waning sun.’

An extract from Not a River (Charco Press) by Selva Almada, tr. by Annie McDermott.

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In Gaza, to date, more than 30,000 people have been killed and more than 72,000 injured by Israeli forces, with many more missing or being killed as you read this. Each and every one of the dead carried stories within them: stories of a people, a culture and a land.

So very very pleased about this - NOT A RIVER is a book I absolutely love and translating it taught me to write in a whole new way 🐟🐟🐟

Congratulations to everyone else on the list - so much that I’m looking forward to reading!

Selva Almada’s Not a River, translated by Annie McDermott is another unmitigated triumph for Charco Press. Here’s my review. thomasblake2000.wordpress.com/2024/02/02/boo…

Out TODAY. Selva Almada's latest work, the powerful and cinematic NOT A RIVER. Translated by Annie McDermott.

Available at your lovely local bookstore, or direct from us here: charcopress.com/bookstore/not-…