Author Carlos Fonseca will be in conversation with Robert Croll, the English-language translator of Argentine great Ricardo Piglia, at Malaprop’s Bookstore via Zoom.
An admirer of the late Piglia, Fonseca is the author of Natural History, out now, the follow-up to his acclaimed debut Colonel Lágrimas. Translated by Croll, Piglia’s much-lauded trilogy The Diaries of Emilio Renzi is finally available to English-reading audiences this fall. Hailed as a “posthumous autobiographical masterpiece” (Publishers Weekly, Starred Review) and “an elegant, affecting close to a masterwork” (Kirkus, Starred Review), the final volume is set to publish on October 13. Piglia’s The Way Out, also translated by Robert Croll, is out now.
When: Tuesday, September 7 at 6 pm
Where: Malaprop’s Bookstore via Zoom
Carlos Fonseca was born in San José, Costa Rica, and spent half of his childhood and adolescence in Puerto Rico. In 2016, he was named one of the twenty best Latin American writers born in the 1980s at the Guadalajara Book Fair, and in 2017 he was included in the Bogotá39 list of the best Latin American writers under forty. He is the author of the novels Colonel Lágrimas and Natural History and in 2018, he won the National Prize for Literature in Costa Rica for his book of essays, La lucidez del miope. He teaches at Trinity College, Cambridge, and lives in London.
Robert Croll is a writer, translator, musician, and artist originally from Asheville, North Carolina. He first came to translation during his undergraduate studies at Amherst College, where he focused particularly on the short fiction of Julio Cortázar.
About The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life
About Colonel Lágrimas
Also by Ricardo Piglia
Also by Carlos Fonseca and Robert Croll
By Ricardo Piglia
Translated from the Spanish by Robert Croll
Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges’ heir and the vanguard of the Post-Boom generation of Latin American literature.
Paperback • ISBN: 9781632060471
Publication date: Oct 13, 2020