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Daniel Hahn

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with seventy-something books to his name. His translations (from Portuguese, Spanish and French) have won him the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International Dublin Literary Award and been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, among many others. He is on the Board of Trustees of English PEN.

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Fiction | Issue 155 padlock
Fiction | Issue 155 padlock

Insomnia of the Statues

David Aliaga

‘Montreal was becoming smudged with snow and night.’

Fiction by David Aliaga, translated by Daniel Hahn.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Plague Diary: April

Gonçalo M. Tavares

‘Pictures from some cities in Latin America: the burning in front of the family home of the dead who are not collected by the state.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Plague Diary: March

Gonçalo M. Tavares

A coronavirus diary from the Portuguese writer Gonçalo M. Tavares, translated by Daniel Hahn.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Connecting Worlds, Inventing Worlds

José Eduardo Agualusa & Daniel Hahn

José Eduardo Agualusa and Daniel Hahn on translating and being translated. ‘As a humble, invisible translator, I let him get the last word.’

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Occupation

Julián Fuks

‘They tell me you write about exile, about lives adrift, about trees whose roots are buried thousands of kilometres away, he said in his harsh accent, his hoarseness aggravated by the static on the telephone line.’

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

My Chess Teacher

Ricardo Lísias

‘The environment, however, wasn’t a hostile one. Though it was filled with the strangest guys in town, they were only there to play.’

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

Man Crossing Bridges

Ronaldo Correia de Brito

‘He prefers the battles of the bed, but his wife insists on his keeping to a severe containment.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 121
Essays & Memoir | Issue 121

The Best Untranslated Writers

Laura Erber, Michel Laub & Ricardo Lísias

Three of Granta’s Best of Young Brazilian Novelists introduce Brazilian novelists whose work has not yet been widely translated.

Fiction | Issue 121 padlock
Fiction | Issue 121 padlock

Teresa

Cristhiano Aguiar

‘They rise up into the sky, like vultures.’

Fiction | Issue 121 padlock
Fiction | Issue 121 padlock

Valdir Peres, Juanito and Poloskei

Antonio Prata

‘The only path to tread, from now on, was downward.’

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