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
Vital Signs
Munir Hachemi
‘She smelled of liquor, and death, and veal.’
Fiction by Munir Hachemi, translated by Nick Caistor.
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
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
Dreams for Hire
Gabriel García Márquez
‘The wave had erupted with such force that it obliterated the glass lobby.‘
A short story by Gabriel García Márquez, translated by Nick Caistor.
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.’
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 113
The Cuervo Brothers
Andrés Felipe Solano
‘I was Mister Average, right on the borderline.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 113
Election Night in Nicaragua
Sergio Ramirez
‘There was no room in our dreams for another war.’
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
The Judge’s Wife
Isabel Allende
‘Nicolas Vidal always knew he would lose his head over a woman.’