Frances Riddle

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Frances Riddle has translated many Spanish-language authors including Isabel Allende, Claudia Piñeiro, Leila Guerriero, and Sara Gallardo. Her translation of Elena Knows, by Claudia Piñeiro, was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Queen Sofía Translation Prize in 2022, and her translation of Theatre of War, by Andrea Jeftanovic, was granted an English PEN Award in 2020.

Today Is Yesterday
By Leila Guerriero
May 2024
Leila Guerriero
Photo by Ehud Neuhaus / Unsplash.comTime is an assassin. There are days that occur in the past. Today, for example, a January Monday in 2019, the sky stretched out like a blue sheet. Yesterday I saw a…
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

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

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…