Jethro Soutar | Granta

Jethro Soutar

Jethro Soutar is a writer and translator of Spanish and Portuguese. He is co-editor of The Football Crónicas, a collection of translated short-form writing from Latin America, and a co-founder of Ragpicker Press. His recent translations include Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel’s Arde el monte de noche (By Night the Mountain Burns) and Frei Beto’s Hotel Brasil, published in English under the same title.

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

Saving Mesopotamia

Alexandra Lucas Coelho

‘What they are excavating is the birth of a civilisation.’

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

Laparotomy

Alexandra Lucas Coelho

‘At forty, I think the world leads to the body. Besides, laid out on a stretcher, you are your only home’ .

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

The Ambivalent

Paulo Scott

‘He not only sees the World Cup as a ceasefire, but also as a series of sleights of hand that hide what’s really going on, political debauchery, spin and chicanery.’

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

Three Football Books

Clara Becker, Stuart Evers & Jethro Soutar

‘Football is a game; it’s not real life. But in a continent as illogical as Latin America, the lines blur.’

Fiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

How We Got Mother Back

Valério Romão

‘With the passing of time we got used to hearing our brother being our mother.’

In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition

Vinicius Jatobá and Jethro Soutar | Podcast

Vinicius Jatobá & Jethro Soutar

Vinicius Jatobá and his translator Jethro Soutar discuss the challenges of translating his story ‘Still Life’ the role of China in the story and the intimate bond between author and translator.

Fiction | Issue 121 padlock
Fiction | Issue 121 padlock

Rat Fever

Javier Arancibia Contreras

‘Everything around me, myself included, is warm and sticky.’

Fiction | Issue 121 padlock
Fiction | Issue 121 padlock

Still Life

Vinicius Jatobá

‘You see the house and its time, the house and the house alone, though your secrets, your fears and silences still exist there, locked away behind the denseness of the closed doors’

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