THROUGH THE NIGHT LIKE A SNAKE with Megan McDowell and Antonio Díaz Oliva
@ Pilsen Community Books
1102 W 18th St, Chicago, IL 60608
Opening Thursday, March 14th, at 7PM
In ten chilling stories from this ensemble cast of contemporary Latin American writers, horror infiltrates the unexpected, taboo regions of the present-day psyche. Latin American Horror is having a moment. Through the Night Like a Snake, the latest in our Calico Series, is an attempt to capture that energy, however eerie or plain terrifying it appears on the page. With writings from celebrated horror practitioners like Mariana Enriquez (Our Share of Night), Mónica Ojeda (Jawbone), Camila Sosa Villada (Bad Girls) and many others, TTNLAS arrives in pitch-perfect English translation, courtesy of translators Sarah Booker, Megan McDowell, Ellen Jones, Kit Maude, Julia Sanches, and others.
Antonio Diaz Oliva (ADO) has published five books in Spanish, including the novel Campus (Chatos Inhumanos, NYC), a tragicomic and absurdist satire of the power dynamics among Latin American academics at U.S. universities. He received the Roberto Bolaño Young Writers Award and the National Book Award for Best Story Collection in Chile. He lives in Chicago, where he works as an editor at the Museum of Contemporary Art. “Rabbits” is part of Gente un poco dañada, a short-story collection that explores the weird and the eerie.
Megan McDowell has translated work by many of the most important contemporary Latin American writers, including Samanta Schweblin, Alejandro Zambra, Mariana Enriquez, Carlos Fonseca, and Lina Meruane. Her translations have won the National Book Award, the English PEN award for Writing in Translation, the Premio Valle-Inclán, the Shirley Jackson Prize, and two O. Henry Prizes, and have been short- or long-listed four times for the International Booker Prize, and shortlisted once for the Kirkus Prize. In 2020 she won an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her short story translations have been featured in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Paris Review, Tin House, McSweeney’s, and Granta, among others. She is from Richmond, KY and lives in Santiago, Chile.
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