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The Animal Gesture

Alejandro Morellón

Translated by Esther Allen

Alejandro Morellón

Alejandro Morellón (1985) was born in Madrid, Spain. He is the author of La noche en que caemos, which won the 2013 MonteLeón Foundation Award, El estado natural de las cosas, which won the 2017 Gabriel García Márquez Hispano-American Short Story Prize and, most recently, Caballo sea la noche.

Photograph © Matías Candeira

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Translated by Esther Allen

Esther Allen’s translation of Antonio Di Benedetto’s Zama received the 2017 National Translation Award. A professor at City University of New York, she has published essays and translations in the New York Review of Books, Poetryfoundation.org, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Paris Review, LitHub, Words Without Borders and elsewhere.

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