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Conditions for the Revolution

Pola Oloixarac

Translated by Mara Faye Lethem

‘Everything is there and not there at the same time.’

Pola Oloixarac

A writer and translator, Oloixarac's first novel, Las teorias salvajes, was published in Argentina (2008), Spain (2010) and Peru (2010) and will soon be translated into French, Dutch and Portuguese. In 2010 she was awarded the Argentinian National Endowment for the Arts and is currently in residence at the International Writing Program at the Unviersity of Iowa. She has a philosophy degree from the University of Buenos Aires and has written on culture and technology for various magazines. She has been writing since she was a child and likes taking bubble baths. Her blog is www.melpomenemag.blogspot.com.

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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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