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Bastard Alias the Romantic

Yuri Herrera

Translated by Lisa Dillman

‘Can you imagine what it would be like if instead of killing we cuddled?’

Yuri Herrera

Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera studied politics in Mexico, creative writing in El Paso and took his PhD in literature at Berkeley. His first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, was published to great critical acclaim in 2015. He is currently teaching at the University of Tulane, in New Orleans.

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Translated by Lisa Dillman

LISA DILLMAN is a senior lecturer at Emory University. She won the 2016 Best Translated Book Award for Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World and the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her translation of Such Small Hands.

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