This debut story collection by Roberto Bolaño Prize winner Paulina Flores marks the arrival in the United States of one of Latin America's most celebrated young writers, an author who captures "the moment when failures matter less than the need to share them" (Alejandro Zambra, author of Multiple Choice)
This debut story collection by Roberto Bolaño Prize winner Paulina Flores marks the arrival in the United States of one of Latin America's most celebrated young writers, an author who captures "the moment when failures matter less than the need to share them" (Alejandro Zambra, author of Multiple Choice)
PAULINA FLORES was born in Chile in 1988. Humiliation is her first book. In its Spanish–language editions, it won the Roberto Bolaño Prize, the Circle of Art Critics Prize, the Municipal Literature Prize, and was selected as one of the ten best books of the year by the newspaper El País. MEGAN McDOWELL has translated many contemporary authors from Latin America and Spain, including Alejandro Zambra, Samanta Schweblin, Mariana Enríquez, Gonzalo Torné, Lina Meruane, Diego Zuñiga, and Carlos Fonseca. Her translations have been published in The New Yorker, Tin House, The Paris Review, Harper's Magazine, McSweeney's, Words Without Borders, and Vice, among others. Her translation of Alejandro Zambra’s novel Ways of Going Home won the 2013 English PEN Award for writing in translation, and her English version of Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin was short–listed for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.
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