The Light of the Fireflies - Paul Pen

Descriere The Light of the Fireflies - Paul Pen

Bruni, Simon: - \nAbout the Translator\n \nSimon Bruni is a translator of fiction and nonfiction from Spanish, a language he acquired through total immersion living in Alicante, Valencia, and Santander. He studied Spanish and linguistics at Queen Mary University of London and literary translation at the University of Exeter. His literary translations include nov¬els, short stories, and video games, while his nonfiction portfolio spans fields as diverse as journalism, social geography, early modern witch¬craft, food security, and military history.\n \nHe has won two third-place prizes in the John Dryden Translation Competition: in 2015 for his translation of Paul Pen's harrowing short story The Porcelain Boy, and in 2011 for Francisco Pérez Gandul's slang-driven novel Cell 211. His translation of Paul Pen's novel The Light of the Fireflies has sold more than a hundred thousand copies worldwide.\n \nSimon serves on the executive committee of the Society of Authors' Translators Association (TA) and is a member of the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA). For more information, please visit www.simonbruni.com.\n

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9781503933545

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