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Brother in Ice

Alicia Kopf

Translated by Mara Faye Lethem

‘My brother is a man trapped in ice. He looks at us through it; he is there and he is not there.’

Alicia Kopf

Alicia Kopf is a writer and artist based in Barcelona. Brother in Ice is the culmination of an artistic cycle of exhibitions entitled Àrticantàrtic. The original Catalan manuscript of Brother in Ice won the 2015 Premi Documenta, a prestigious prize for an unpublished Catalan-language work of literature, and upon publication was awarded the 2016 Premi Llibreter by Catalan booksellers. The Spanish edition received further prizes, including the Premio El Ojo Crítico, awarded by Spanish National Radio.

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Translated by Mara Faye Lethem

Mara Faye Lethem is a writer, researcher, and literary translator. Winner of the inaugural 2022 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award for Max Besora’s The Adventures and Misadventures of Joan Orpí, she was also recently awarded the 2022 Joan Baptiste Cendrós International Prize for her contributions to Catalan literatureHer translation of Irene Solà’s When I Sing, Mountains Dance was a finalist for the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Barrios Book in Translation Prize and the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. Her forthcoming translations include Pol Guasch's Napalm in the Heart (Faber & Faber and FSG), Alana S. Portero's Bad Habit (HarperVia), Max Besora's The Fake Muse, and Irene Solà's I Gave You Eyes And You Looked Toward Darkness.

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