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Nick Caistor

Nick Caistor is a British translator of more than eighty books from Spanish, French and Portuguese. He lived in Argentina for a number of years, where he was the BBC Latin America analyst. He has translated authors such as Isabel Allende, Roberto Arlt, Mario Benedetti, Julio Cortázar, María Dueñas, Fogwill, Juan Marsé, Eduardo Mendoza, Juan Carlos Onetti and José Saramago. He is a three-time winner of the Premio Valle-Inclán for translation from Spanish.

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Fiction | Issue 155

Fiction | Issue 155

Vital Signs

Munir Hachemi

‘She smelled of liquor, and death, and veal.’

Fiction by Munir Hachemi, translated by Nick Caistor.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 153

Essays & Memoir | Issue 153

Of the Forest

Manari Ushigua & Zoë Tryon

‘We Indigenous peoples know how nature works, how water, mountains, trees function and relate to each other, how stars in space are connected with the earth.’

Fiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Fracture

Andrés Neuman

‘Sometimes, in the midst of one of our arguments, he would say to me sadly, I understand you more if I understand less.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 41

Essays & Memoir | Issue 41

Dreams for Hire

Gabriel García Márquez

‘The wave had erupted with such force that it obliterated the glass lobby.‘ Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor.

Fiction | Issue 131

Fiction | Issue 131

The Archive

Sebastià Jovani

‘The aim of this study is to visualise a means of understanding the essential aspects of a literary text.’

Fiction | Issue 127

Fiction | Issue 127

Pig Skin

Andrés Felipe Solano

‘A perfect impostor.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 121

Essays & Memoir | Issue 121

Foreword: The Best of Young Brazilian Novelists

Roberto Feith & Marcelo Ferroni

This is the first edition of Granta dedicated to Brazilian writing. It is being...

Fiction | Issue 121

Fiction | Issue 121

Evo Morales

Ricardo Lísias

‘Loneliness also makes our victories melancholy.’

Fiction | Issue 113

Fiction | Issue 113

The Cuervo Brothers

Andrés Felipe Solano

‘I was Mister Average, right on the borderline.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 113

Essays & Memoir | Issue 113

Election Night in Nicaragua

Sergio Ramirez

‘There was no room in our dreams for another war.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 31

Essays & Memoir | Issue 31

The Future of Colombia

Gabriel García Márquez

‘With the hindsight of six years, it is clear that Colombia missed the opportunity to spare itself many of the horrors now afflicting it.’

Fiction | Issue 21

Fiction | Issue 21

The Judge’s Wife

Isabel Allende

‘Nicolas Vidal always knew he would lose his head over a woman.’