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Uninhabitants

Gonzalo Baz

Translated by Christina MacSweeney

‘The day we moved into the neighborhood, the house next door was in ruins, it was an inaccessible, absent place.’

Fiction by Gonzalo Baz, translated by Christina MacSweeney.

Gonzalo Baz

Gonzalo Baz (1985) was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He directs the publishing house Pez en el Hielo. His first fiction book Animales que vuelven won the Ópera Prima Award from the Ministry of Education in Uruguay. His first novel, Los pasajes comunes, was published in 2020.

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Translated by Christina MacSweeney

Christina MacSweeney is an award-winning translator of Latin American literature. She has worked with authors such as Valeria Luiselli, Daniel Saldaña París, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Julián Herbert and Jazmina Barrera. She has also contributed to anthologies of Latin American literature and published articles and interviews on a wide variety of platforms.

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