Obituary: Rodolfo Fogwill
Although it hasn’t been covered in the U.S. papers (at least to the best of my knowledge), Argentine author Rodolfo Fogwill passed away at the end of last month. He published a ton of stuff in Argentina—around 20 books—but only one—Malvinas Requiem—has been published in English translation. ...
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Review: Malvinas Requiem by Rodolfo Fogwill
Our latest review is of Rodolfo Fogwill’s Malvinas Requiem, a book that we’ve mentioned a few times recently, in terms of the Guardian coverage and the jacket ...
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Malvinas Requiem
In selling literature in translation, there’s always a joke/fear that readers won’t pick up a book by an author whose name they can’t pronounce. Or if they do, that they’ll struggle dealing with names and places that are unfamiliar, with too many consonants, that are obviously foreign. Rodolfo Fogwill’s Malvinas ...
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More Fogwill
I first heard about Fogwill from Javier Molea at McNally Robinson, who insisted that I read him. (I think the phrase Javier kept repeating was “mind-blowing.”) It was a great coincidence to find that Serpent’s Tail had just published Malvinas Requiem (Los Pichiciegos), and an even greater coincidence to find ...
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