Here Be Icebergs

About Katya Adaui

Katya Adaui was born in Lima in 1977. She is the author of the books of short stories Geografía de la oscuridad (Geography of Obscurity) Aquí hay icebergs (Here Be Icebergs) Algo se nos ha escapado (Something Escaped Us) and the novel Nunca sabré lo que entiendo (Ill Never Know What I Understand). She has also written the childrens books Patichueca and Muy Muy en Bora Bora . She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Argentina. She lives in Buenos Aires where she teaches writing workshops. Rosalind Harvey was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018. Her translation of Juan Pablo Villalobos debut novel Down the Rabbit Hole was shortlisted for the 2011 Guardian First Book Award and the 2012 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. Her latest translation of his work Ill Sell You A Dog was longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award. She has worked on books by Guadalupe Nettel Elvira Navarro Enrique Vila-Matas and Héctor Abad Faciolince and is currently working on a YA title about the journeys of teenage Central American immigrants to the United States. Rosalind is also chair and co founder of the Emerging Translators Network and is a Teaching Fellow in Spanish and Translation Studies at the University of Warwick.