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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

But we all know that Ricardo Reis is really a figment of the imagination of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa: used to be a monarchist poet in exile, is now an economics professor writing odes about economic growth at the LSE. #RicardoReis #FernandoPessoa

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In one of Brazil’s most beautiful towns, one of the world’s most extraordinary literary events is happening this week. In 2004, when #FLIP was in its 2nd yr, I wrote about it for @ftweekend.com. I was invited back to chair events in later editions. Truly my happy place… authory.com/AngelGurriaQ...

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Brazil’s rich literary tradition (or Flipping in Parati)

For five days in July, the Brazilian seaside town of Parati hosted some of the world’s most celebrated authors. Where else might one spot Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt tripping over colossal cobbles w...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 20/06/2026

If you're looking for the best new novels to take to the beach, stop scrolling. Maria Crawford and Ángel Gurría-Quintana select their best mid-year reads: ft.trib.al/2jwc3zR

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

It’s here! My #summer list of #fiction in #translation in this weekend’s @ftweekend.com. A bit shorter than usual, so much harder to choose between so many excellent books. #Mexico #Ukraine #Brazil #Morocco #France #Taiwan

A photo of the Financial Times Weekend’s Summer Books pages open on a breakfast table with a cup of coffee over it.

Now I Surrender
By Álvaro Enrigue
Transl. Natasha Wimmer
In a novel that roams fearlessly across styles, eras, and countries, one of Mexico’s outstanding storytellers layers an account of a family road trip across the American Southwest onto a retelling of the defeat of legendary Apache warrior Geronimo, in the late 19th century, after years of pursuit by the American and Mexican armies.

My Women
By Yuliia Iliukha
Transl. Hanna Leliv
In this delicate collection of short stories, the devastation of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is told through the voices of women – the mothers, wives, widows, daughters, survivors, fighters, evacuees, the ones who left, the ones who stayed behind. A tender and heartbreaking reminder of the human price of war.

Exemplary Humans
By Juliana Leite
Transl. Zoë Perry
Locked in her Rio de Janeiro apartment while an unnamed epidemic rages outside, near-centenarian Natalia pursues small pleasures, remembers a life filled with purpose, and puzzles at the void left by people and things she loved and lost. Memories of Brazil’s dictatorship swirl uneasily in the background as Natalia ponders the only meaningful question: “How to live?”

I'll Take the Fire
By Leïla Slimani
Transl. Sam Taylor
In the final instalment of her semi-autobiographical trilogy, the French-Moroccan author follows sisters Mia and Inès, who leave their native Morocco to study in Paris. Echoing real family stories, including the wrongful imprisonment of Slimani’s father, the novel explores issues of immigration, identity and belonging as the sisters strive to find their foothold.

Taiwan Travelogue
By Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
Transl. Lin King
Presented in the guise of a Japanese writer’s account of her travels across Japanese-occupied Taiwan in the 1930’s, and told through the prism of an increasingly complex relationship with her local interpreter, this year’s winner of the International Booker Prize is a richly multi-layered meditation on language and longing.

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

What a treat to be in conversation with MILTON HATOUM 🇧🇷 & LILIANA COLANZI 🇧🇴 at @hayfestival.bsky.social @hayfestivalesp.bsky.social #Hay2026 #Translation

Journalist and translator Ángel Gurría-Quintana in conversation with Brazilian novelist Milton Hatoum at Hay Festival.

Journalist and translator Ángel Gurría-Quintana in conversation with Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi at Hay Festival.

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

“I enjoy sitting at my desk like a child playing with his toys. It’s work, essentially, but it’s fun and games also.” Can’t believe it’s been over 20 yrs since my @parisreview.bsky.social interview with Pamuk was published. He got the @nobelprize.org the following year. Still a highlight for me.

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

“Literature is pleasure and knowledge, like sex.” This excellent @parisreview.bsky.social interview by Andrés Barba reminded me of the time I interviewed Cercas at the Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty (FLIP). That’s me in the photo (R) with Cercas (L) & Colombia’s Juan Gabriel Vásquez.

Photo of Spanish novelist Javier Cercas, on the left, talking, and Colombia’s Juan Gabriel Vásquez, centre, in a conversation chaired by journalist Ángel Gurría-Quintana, at the Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty, Brazil.

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Dorothy Tse’s CITY LIKE WATER, beautifully translated by Natascha Bruce, shows how easily the language of dreams can become the language of nightmares. My review in today’s @ftweekend.com @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social #HongKong www.ft.com/content/49cd...

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City Like Water — drowning in oppression

A family is caught in a political sea of deception in this dystopian novella by Hong Kong author Dorothy Tse

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

"...a nation that has long been considered Latin America’s cinema laggard"? @economist.com is a fine publication, but sometimes, out of ignorance or laziness or both, it spews absolute nonsense. #Brazil #Brasil #CinemaBrasileiro

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Saturday’s post brought this beautiful copy of BLUE, by Shutter Hub Editions, which includes my #cyanotype made from a photo taken at the Museum of Classical Archaeology @cam.ac.uk #blue #altphoto

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

‘As rich and heady as some of the dishes that Chi-chan prepares for Aoyama, Taiwan Travelogue is a multi-layered meditation on language and longing, and on the many ways in which we travel only to arrive where we started.’ @angelgurriaq.bsky.social reviews Taiwan Travelogue for @financialtimes.com✨

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Taiwan Travelogue — a Booker-longlisted novel on the tricks of translation

At the heart of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s rich, heady book is the uneasy bond between a Japanese author and her Taiwanese interpreter

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Good piece @richlusc.bsky.social … but do you mean…”imperial”? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

So glad to see my #translation of Sandro William Junqueira’s THE ARCHITECTURE OF FEAR now out in #paperback @mountainleopard.bsky.social #Portugal

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

And here’s what it looks like in print… Delighted, as ever, to share the page with the @ftweekend.com’s very own Undercover Economist @timharford.ft.com

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Christmas book season is upon us (it comes earlier every year!). So here's my end-of-year list of fiction in #translation for this weekend's @ftweekend.com. Some excellent reads from #Argentina, #Brazil, #Cuba, #Denmark, #Georgia, #Germany, #Japan, #Norway, #Poland & #Spain.

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Hard to believe it's been so long since I reviewed David Szalay's debut novel, London and the Southeast, for @ftweekend.com. This week he won the #Booker Prize for Fiction for his latest novel, Flesh. @thebookerprizes.com #Flesh #Szalay

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

“Time is compressed and stretched in this novel, which seems more determined to explore the disjointedness of expatriation than to pursue the conventions of linear storytelling.” My review of False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez @ftweekend.com @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7356...

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False War by Carlos Manuel Álvarez — a meditation on migration

The second novel by the New York-based Cuban writer deals with issues of exile and dissidence through the eyes of several émigrés

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Here’s what the Fiction in #Translation Summer Roundup looked like in print… @ftweekend.com

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

"Sit with discomfort... listen deeply... and stay soft in hard times." A hugely moving valediction from Yurong Jiang, of @harvard.edu's class of 2025.

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

A masterclass in the art of #translation. In 2013 I joined MJC on the jury of the Harvill Secker Young Translator's Award. Later that year we went toe-to-toe in a Translation Duel at Cheltenham Lit Fest, chaired by Danny Hahn. Heady & humbling times, learning from the best. @parisreview.bsky.social

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Temperature is rising 🥵... Time to share my Summer recommendations of some of the best fiction in #translation published so far this year. @ftweekend.com 🌎 📖 www.ft.com/content/5720...

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Best summer books of 2025: Fiction in translation

Ángel Gurría-Quintana selects his best mid-year reads

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Two huge losses to the world of letters: Kenya's Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o passed away on 28 May. American novelist & memoirist Edmund White died on 3 June. I met and interviewed them both at the Festa Literária Internacional de Paraty, in Brazil. Ed was also a generous mentor and teacher.

Ángel sits on stage chairing a conversation with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Richard Flanagan at a Brazilian literary festival.

Edmund White on stage at a Brazilian literary festival reading from his memoir, My Lives.

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Ángel Gurría-Quintana @angelgurriaq.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Great to see @economist.com including Han Kang in its list of best books of 2025 so far but… would it have been so difficult to name her translators Emily Yae Won and Paige Aniyah Morris, too? #namethetranslator

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