Trout Belly Up

About Rodrigo Fuentes

Considered to be one of the most prominent names among the new generation of Guatemalan writers Rodrigo Fuentes (1984) won the Carátula Central American Short Story Prize (2014) as well as the Juegos Florales of Quetzaltenango Short Story Prize (2008). He is the co-founder and editor of the magazine Suelta and of the digital publishing house and literary journal Traviesa .Trout Belly Up was shortlisted for the 2018 Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez the most prestigious prize awarded to short-story writers in Latin America. It has been published in Guatemala Bolivia Chile and Colombia as well as in France. Rodrigo currently lectures at the College of the Holy Cross in the United States and lives between Providence and Guatemala. This is his first book to appear in English.Ellen Jones is a writer editor and literary translator from Spanish. Her recent and forthcoming translations include The Remains by Margo Glantz (shortlisted for the Warwick Prize of Women in Translation) Cubanthropy by Iván de la Nuez The Forgery by Ave Barrera (co-translated with Robin Myers) and Nancy by Bruno Lloret. Her monograph Literature in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas is published by Columbia University Press (2022).