Holiday Heart

About Margarita Garcia Robayo

Margarita García Robayo was born in 1980 in Cartagena Colombia and now lives in Buenos Aires where she teaches creative writing and works as a journalist and scriptwriter. She is the author of several novels including Hasta que pase un huracán (Waiting for a Hurricane ) and Educación Sexual (Sexual Education both included in Fish Soup ) Holiday Heart and Lo que no aprendí (The Things I have Not Learnt). She is also the author of a book of autobiographical essays Primera Persona (First Person forthcoming with Charco Press) and several collections of short stories including Worse Things which obtained the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize in 2014 (also included in Fish Soup ). TheDelivery is her third book to appear in English after the very successful Fish Soup (selected by the TLS as one of the best fiction titles of 2018) and Holiday Heart (Winner of the English PEN Award).Charlotte Coombe is a British literary translator working from French and Spanish. Her translation of Abousse Shalmanis Khomeini Sade and Me (2016) won a PEN Translates award. She has translated novels by Anna Soler-Pont and Asha Miró Marc de Gouvenain as well as some non-fiction short stories and poetry by Edgardo Nuñez Caballero Rosa María Roffiel and Santiago Roncagliolo for Palabras Errantes . She is also the translator of Eduardo Bertis novel The Imagined Land (2018). She has translated three titles for Charco Press: Ricardo Romeros The Presidents Room (2017) and Margarita García Robayos Fish Soup (2018) and Holiday Heart (2020).