Curator: Kevin Gerry Dunn
Translator: Kevin Gerry Dunn
Author: Cristina Morales
Title: Easy Reading/Lectura fácil
Language: English (translated from Spanish)
Country: Spain
Publisher: Jonathan Cape (Penguin UK; forthcoming in 2021)

Description of event: A bilingual reading with Cristina Morales, author of Lectura fácil, winner of the Herralde Prize for Fiction in 2018 and the Spanish National Book Award for Fiction in 2019. The English translation, Easy Reading is forthcoming from Jonathan Cape in 2021 in a translation by Kevin Gerry Dunn.

Bios:
Cristina Morales is the author of four novels and one volume of short stories, including Lectura fácil, for which she won the Herralde Prize and the Spanish National Prize for Fiction, and which is forthcoming from Jonathan Cape (Penguin UK) as Easy Reading. She is a member of the international dance company Iniciativa Sexual Femenina.

Kevin Gerry Dunn is a Spanish–English translator whose recent projects include Countersexual Manifesto by Paul B. Preciado (Columbia University Press, 2018), Revealing Selves by Kike Arnal and Josefina Fernández (The New Press, 2018), and Easy Reading by Cristina Morales (Penguin, forthcoming), for which he has received a PEN/Heim Translation Grant and a residency at the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. He also heads the FTrMP Project, an effort to make Spanish translations of vital asylum and immigration paperwork available for free online. His website is www.kgdtranslation.com.

incidental music by Robert Moreland

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