Samantha Schnee

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Samantha Schnee is the founding editor of Words Without Borders. Her translation of Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft was shortlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize in 2015, and her translation of Boullosa’s penultimate novel, The Book of Anna, was published by Coffee House Press in 2020. Her translation of Boullosa’s El libro de Eva, which was shortlisted for the Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Novel Prize, will be published by Deep Vellum in 2023.

Marta Finds Añes a Place
By Irati Elorrieta

March 2, 2022 Irati Elorrieta
Photo by Pierre Châtel-Innocenti / Unsplash In Winter Lights, rising star Irati Elorrieta’s first novel, Añes is a Basque woman who has immigrated to Berlin by way of Paris. Her story ex…
The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa
By Carmen Boullosa

Carmen Boullosa
Minneapolis. Coffee House Press. 2020. 181 pages. IN HER SUCCINCT yet electrifying homage to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, Mexican writer Carmen Boullosa conceptualizes the contin…
Landing by Laia Fàbregas
By Laia Fàbregas

Laia Fàbregas
Madrid. Hispabooks. 2016. 200 pages. Landing is a multifaceted book, written under two simple chapter headings, “Her” and “Him,” alternately throughout the book. These chapters develop the in…