Tender

About Ariana Harwicz

Compared to Nathalie Sarraute and Virginia Woolf Ariana Harwicz is one of the most radical figures in contemporary Argentinian literature. Her prose is characterised by its violence eroticism irony and criticism of the clichés surrounding the notions of the family and conventional relationships. Born in Buenos Aires in 1977 Harwicz studied screenwriting and drama in Argentina and earned a degree in Performing Arts from the University of Paris VII as well as a Masters in comparative literature from the Sorbonne. She has taught screenwriting and written plays which have been staged in Buenos Aires. Feebleminded (which has also been adapted for the stage in Argentina and Spain) is her second novel and a sequel in an involuntary trilogy preceded by Die My Love (Charco Press 2017) and followed by Precocious . Her fourth novel Degenerate comes out in June 2019. Die My Love was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize (2018) and shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize (2018). It has been translated into more than ten languages.Originally from Buenos Aires and now based in Edinburgh Carolina Orloff is an experienced translator and researcher in Latin American literature. In 2016 after obtaining her PhD and working in the academic sector for several years Carolina co-founded Charco Press where she acts as publishing director and main editor. She is also the co-translator of Ariana Harwiczs Die My Love .Annie McDermott s translations include Mario Levreros Empty Words and The Luminous Novel (And Other Stories and Coffee House Press) Feebleminded by Ariana Harwicz (co-translation with Carolina Orloff Charco Press) and City of Ulysses by Teolinda Gersão (co-translation with Jethro Soutar Dalkey Archive Press). Her translations reviews and essays have appeared in Granta The White Review World Literature Today Asymptote the Times Literary Supplement and LitHub among others. She has translated several books by Selva Almada including: Dead Girls (2020) and Brickmakers (2021). In 2023 she was awarded the Valle Inclán Prize for her translation of Joseph Zárate's Wars of the Interior.