Out 26 Sept. Translated by ⁦megan mcdowell⁩ #MarianaEnriquez ⁦⁦Granta Books⁩

“Warm beer, wet towel, cold ocean.” 🌊 From our latest issue: THE GOAL IS NOT TO TREMBLE BUT TO CAUSE A QUAKE by Brenda Navarro (tr. megan mcdowell) 🎨 Claire Whitehurst southwestreview.com/volume-109-num…

In the L.A. Times! thanks to Jim Ruland. latimes.com/entertainment-…

Also World Literature Today! Thanks to Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard worldliteraturetoday.org/2024/july/femi…

Tonight!

In the mail: good to see ARC of Alejandro Zambra's 'Childish Literature' (tr. megan mcdowell; Penguin Books 10/2024) penguinrandomhouse.com/books/737144/c…

Prize WINNER Announcement 🧵 So excited to announce our 2024 winner Sukie Wilson with 'Leaving Night Country'! "... it catches us with its incredible narrative voice. Wilson has a keen sense of music and rhythm. We are left with a sense of wonder" - Judge, megan mcdowell

Hot off the grill: a new review from our summer issue 🔥 Read our deep dive on José Donoso’s THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT (tr. megan mcdowell via New Directions) by Dustin Illingworth southwestreview.com/volume-109-num…

More September books! ndbooks.com/books

La estadounidense Megan McDowell habla de su último trabajo, la traducción de «El obsceno pájaro de la noche» de José Donoso, novela que solo había estado disponible en inglés de forma incompleta. acortar.link/9gyqPu

In CHILDISH LITERATURE, "Zambra reveals what he saw for the first time through his son’s eyes in prose, shining in megan mcdowell's translation, that is at once poetic and personal, playful and philosophical.” | via PEN America pen.org/alejandro-zamb…

Vanessa Chan Raghu Karnad Crystal Hana Kim | 김하나 @DanielLoedel Idra Novey Damion Searls has translated Jon Fosse, Rilke, & Wittgenstein. Jeffrey Zuckerman's translation of Ananda Devi's EVE OUT OF HER RUINS won the Firecracker Award for Fiction. And megan mcdowell won the National Book Foundation award for her translation of Samanta Schweblin's SEVEN EMPTY HOUSES!

There's still time to get your ticket for the Words Without Borders gala, a week from today!

🎧 New Ep: Host Jo Reed, Kendra D. Winchester discuss a new collection of stories from one of Argentina’s most beloved authors, Mariana Enriquez, translated by megan mcdowell & performed by an ensemble cast, including Lee Osorio & Annette Amelia Oliveira. Penguin Random House Audio 🎧 📚 bit.ly/AFMpodcast

"McDowell’s translations of Emar into English are the bridge connecting the Anglophone world to the surreal Latin America of Juan Emar." alex reviews TEN by Juan Emar (New Directions), tr. from the Spanish by megan mcdowell: full-stop.net/2024/12/13/rev…

Part 1 (of 7) of the end of year special is out now. 3 hours of fun with Lee Klein, megan mcdowell blake butler and Richard Milward. open.spotify.com/episode/28Vs7M…

The Best Books of 2024👏 Mariana Enríquez’s new story collection, A Sunny Place for Shady People, brilliantly captured in Megan McDowell’s #translations La llamada by Leila Guerriero, is a master class in writing an impossible book #Literature #books theparisreview.org/blog/2024/12/2…

"Many of us live immersed in such immediacy and simplification, in a kind of half-awake state, while terrible things happen all around us. What, then, is the thing that will suddenly wake us up?": Samanta Schweblin on her story in this week's issue. newyorker.com/books/this-wee…

This week in the New Yorker: Samanta Schweblin's story "A Visit from the Chief," (Translated by Megan McDowell) newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

Eating Ashes - Brenda Navarro translated by Megan McDowell