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Natasha Wimmer

Natasha Wimmer is the translator of nine books by Roberto Bolaño, including The Savage Detectives and 2666. Her most recent translations are Space Invaders by Nona Fernández and Sudden Death by Álvaro Enrigue.

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Fiction | Issue 155 padlock
Fiction | Issue 155 padlock

Dengue Boy

Michel Nieva

‘Where his mother had surely hoped for a sweet little mouth, Dengue Boy had misshapen flesh bristling with maxillary palps.’

Fiction by Michel Nieva, translated by Natasha Wimmer.

Poetry | Issue 155
Poetry | Issue 155

sleeping far from home

Soledad Marambio

‘They told her a thrush came into the house / and fell asleep by the TV.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 155
Essays & Memoir | Issue 155

I Like Being a Woman (And I Hate Hysterical Women)

Leila Guerriero

‘One day my father called me over to explain to me about the little seed, patting my head as if he were offering me his condolences.’

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Fiction | Issue 114 padlock

Beach

Roberto Bolaño

‘I said to myself that maybe he wasn’t about to die.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 114
Essays & Memoir | Issue 114

Translations in the Making

Various Contributors

‘I’m still not satisfied. Names are so tough. And so critical.’

Fiction | Issue 113
Fiction | Issue 113

The Girls Resembled Each Other in the Unfathomable

Carlos Labbé

‘That’s what I was fated to discover. That we’ll never be allowed to experience a desire that we simply can’t handle.’

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Fiction | Issue 113 padlock

Gerardo’s Letters

Elvira Navarro

‘The last thing I feel like doing now is going in search of the gnome.’

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Fiction | Issue 110 padlock

The Redhead

Roberto Bolaño

‘Only the inventors survive.’

In Conversation | Issue 110
In Conversation | Issue 110

Translating Sex

Natasha Wimmer & Ollie Brock

‘I won’t say that the mood of a scene doesn’t affect me, but I’m not the translating equivalent of a Method actor.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 110
Essays & Memoir | Issue 110

Borges and Me, and Me

Rodrigo Fresán

‘What would be the point of writing anything if I went down in history as the person who killed Borges?’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 109
Essays & Memoir | Issue 109

Notes Toward the Memoirs of a Book Thief

Rodrigo Fresán

‘There’s never enough money to buy all the books we need to read or simply admire, hold, caress, knowing that we have them, that they’re ours.’

Non-fiction by Rodrigo Fresán, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.

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Fiction | Issue 88 padlock

Never Neverland

Rodrigo Fresán

‘The dead are—always—masterpieces of literature.’

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