UA Creative Writing Program, UA Poetry Center
Natasha Wimmer reads her translations from the Spanish of Salvadoran poet Roque Dalton, Mexican novelist Álvaro Enrigue, and Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño. She opens with a translation-in-progress of Dalton's poems written in 1970s Cuba before turning to Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires (2024), a novel about the Spanish conquistadors' stay in Tenochtitlan in 1519. She closes with an excerpt from Roberto Bolaño's novel The Savage Detectives (2007), which follows fictional young poets in Mexico City.
Translated from the Spanish of Roque Dalton.
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Translated from the Spanish of Roque Dalton.
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Spanish text by Roque Dalton.
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Translated from the Spanish of Roque Dalton.
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Enrigue, Álvaro. You Dreamed of Empires. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. New York: Riverhead Books, 2024.
Bolaño, Roberto. The Savage Detectives. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
