Frances Riddle

Frances Riddle has translated writers such as Isabel Allende, Leila Guerriero, Claudia Piñeiro, Sara Gallardo, and María Fernanda Ampuero. Originally from Houston, Texas, she lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Three Micromemoirs from Argentina

By Leila Guerriero

September 2022
Leila Guerriero

What Is Lost Can you picture the Argentine pampa? Flat fields, eucalyptus trees, a seemingly inoffensive landscape where a gray sunset might use your boiling blood to paint a path st...
Violeta by Isabel Allende

By Isabel Allende

July 2022
Isabel Allende

New York. Ballantine Books. 2022. 319 pages. ISABEL ALLENDE OPENS her novel Violeta with a quote from Mary Oliver: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and...
Bodies of Summer by Martin Felipe Castagnet

By Martin Felipe Castagnet

May 2017
Martin Felipe Castagnet

Victoria, Texas. Dalkey Archive Press. 2017. 105 pages. The central concept of Bodies of Summer is a good one: what if, after death, your consciousness uploaded to the Internet, where you cou...