I read The Gold Seekers [Los buscadores de oro], by Augusto Monterroso (1993; 2023 tr. by Jessica Sequeira for Sublunary Editions), a warm memoir of growing up in an unusual family in Honduras and Guatemala, up through his fifteenth year. Jessica Sequeira Sublunary Editions

.Jessica Sequeira (Universidad Católica) reviews "Gabriela Mistral en México: La construcción de una intelectual (1922–1924)" (Libros UNAM /Universidad de Chile, 2022) by Carla Ulloa Inostroza tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Here you can listen to our "Araucaria negra", the fifth song of the Mistralswagen. It's a waltz for the south, about a huemul running through the forest, with lyrics from a poem by Gabriela Mistral and featuring the beautiful viola of Valentina Maza 🖤🌿 youtube.com/watch?v=K8pIEc…

"the author seeks to order her thoughts amidst the blur of nightmare, building, layer by layer, a world of dissonant beauty" You can get hold of "Anuarí" by the Chilean poet Teresa Wilms Montt, in my translation, at the Asterism website 🌸 Snuggly Books asterismbooks.com/product/anuari…

Cover reveal ✨ Here's the cover of the forthcoming issue of MPT 'Salam to Gaza: Focus on Dissent and Resistance' - the first issue from our new editor, Janani Ambikapathy. Cover art by Justin Moore. Posting to subscribers end of July / early August.

Raúl Zurita has a moving essay in this one 🙏

"... in search of more luminous associations." Jessica Sequeira's preface to A Luminous History of the Palm.

JAZZ OF THE AFFECTIONS, a lyrical novella from Jessica Sequeira (Jessica Sequeira) that questions the relationship of art to the surrounding world and the wagers made for love in the improvisational jazz of events, arrives in October. asterismbooks.com/product/jazz-o…

5/ Translator Jessica Sequeira is reading "The Return of the Caravels," which revisits an epic 16th-century poem on the adventures of Portugal’s conquistadors by António Lobo Antunes

I recommended the novel "The Return of the Caravels" by António Lobo Antunes (As Naus in Portuguese, translated by Gregory Rabassa in English) for The Dial's summer reading list ⚓ Here you can read all of the contributor suggestions: thedial.world/articles/news/…

only one week left to send us your essays, fiction and experimental texts ... all the details here: oleada.io/publication/mi…

"Wisdom Formula" Lin Yutang

Murió el lingüista Oscar Aguilera. Dedicó gran parte de su vida al estudio del Kaweskar, una lengua que parecía condenada a desaparecer. Fue mi profesor de redacción en la universidad de Chile. Un gran profesor.

Here's my review of "Theatre of Nepal and the people who make it" by Carol C. Davis (Cambridge University Press, 2019) in Contemporary South Asia Contemporary South Asia tandfonline.com/eprint/6MRTVXP…

I can’t let #womenintranslation pass without celebrating a few of Christina Tudor-Sideri ‘s translations — alongside a few of her own embodied texts— with wonder and awe at what she’ll do next. 🖤

"This is not a “Top [XXX]” list, or a ranking of the best or most essential texts. Rather, it is attempt to map the off-shoots of an idea, at this moment in time and among this group of contemporaries ..." minorliteratures.com/2024/09/03/min…

The good people of minor literature[s] put together an amazing list of books . . . happy I could add a recommendation to this project of literature in expansion ❤️ Suggestions for an anti-canon of minor literatures: minorliteratures.com/2024/09/03/min…

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