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A Perfect Cemetery

Federico Falco

Translated by Jennifer Croft

Federico Falco

Federico Falco (General Cabrera, Córdoba, Argentina, 1977) is the author of four collections of short stories, a book of poems and the novel Cielos de Córdoba (Córdoba Skies). He holds a BA in Communications from Blas Pascal University in Argentina and an MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish from New York University. In 2010 Granta selected him as one of the Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, and in 2017 the story ‘Silvi and the Her Dark Night’ was a finalist for the García Márquez Short Story Prize. Falco is currently the director of Chai Editora, dedicated to publishing short stories by contemporary Argentinian authors. His forthcoming novel, Los Llanos (The Plains) was recently finalist of the Herralde Prize (2020). He lives in Buenos Aires and A Perfect Cemetery is his first book to appear in English.

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Translated by Jennifer Croft

Jennifer Croft won the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her memoir Homesick and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is the author of Serpientes y escaleras and Notes on Postcards and holds a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review Daily,the Paris Review Daily, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House, BOMB, n+1, Guernica, the Guardian,the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere.

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