The Paris Review: Mariana Dimópulos Interview

For The Paris Review, Mariana Dimópulos speaks with translator Jennifer Croft upon the publication of All My Goodbyes.

Interviews, Spanish LiteratureTransit BooksFebruary 12, 2019Mariana Dimópulos, Argentine Literature, The Paris Review, Jennifer Croft, All My Goodbyes, Interview

Best of 2018: Kirkus Names The Right Intention

Kirkus Reviews names Andrés Barba’s The Right Intention one of the Best Books of 2018.

Transit News, Spanish LiteratureTransit BooksNovember 18, 2018Andrés Barba, The Right Intention, Such Small Hands, Kirkus Reviews, Best Books of 2018, Lisa Dillman, Spanish Literature, Translated Literature

False Calm: María Sonia Cristoff and Katherine Silver

Join Argentinian author María Sonia Cristoff and her translator, Katherine Silver, to launch Cristoff’s breakout work of nonfiction, False Calm, at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco on Tuesday, October 23.

Events, Spanish LiteratureTransit BooksOctober 3, 2018María Sonia Cristoff, False Calm, San Francisco Events, Katherine Silver

Such Small Hands Wins Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize

Andrés Barba's Such Small Hands, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman was named the winner of the 2018 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Dillman's translation "pushes language to a near-breaking point."

Spanish Literature, Translated Fiction, AwardsTransit BooksJune 17, 2018Lisa Dillman, Such Small Hands, Andrés Barba, Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize, Translation

Such Small Hands Excerpted in Bomb

"It was once a happy city; we were once happy girls . . ."

Spanish Literature, Translated FictionTransit BooksApril 22, 2017Andrés Barba, Lisa Dillman, BOMB Magazine, Such Small Hands

John Freeman Recommends Andrés Barba

John Freeman calls Andrés Barba's "gorgeous" August, October one of the best books of 2015.

Translated Fiction, Spanish LiteratureTransit BooksDecember 5, 2015Andrés Barba, Transit Books, John Freeman, The Boston Globe, August October, Boston Globe, Lisa Dillman

Andrés Barba Interview in The Paris Review

"To my mind, the quintessential territory of literature is the private realm, the intimate world, the incommunicable."

Spanish Literature, Translated FictionTransit BooksNovember 4, 2015Andrés Barba, august october, Jonathan Lee, The Paris Review, Transit Books, Lorin Stein, lisa dillman

Andrés Barba in Music & Literature

"In Dillman’s translations, Barba’s psychological acuity is patient and uncompromising; it sheds light on the dark corners of the mind that very few authors attempt to explore."

Spanish Literature, Translated FictionTransit BooksOctober 28, 2015Andrés Barba, alex mcelroy, august october, rain over madrid, lisa dillman