Andrés Barba
{{Short description|Spanish writer}}
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Andrés Barba (Madrid, 1975) is a Spanish writer and translator graduated in Hispanic Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid, with a degree in Philosophy. He has taught at Bowdoin College, the Complutense University of Madrid and Princeton University.
In 2003 he was a resident at the Spanish Academy in Rome. In 2004 he stayed at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid. In 2016 he was invited by the British Council and Queen Mary University of London for a fellowship and in 2018 he received the prestigious Cullman Center Fellowship from the New York Public Library.
As a translator he is responsible for more than thirty versions, mostly into Spanish, of authors such as Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Herman Melville, Thomas De Quincey, Lewis Carroll, Rebecca West, Allen Ginsberg, J.R. Ackerley, Scott Fitzgerald, Dylan Thomas, Edgar Lee Masters, among many others.
He is the co-founder, along with the painter Alberto Pina (with whom he lived at the Spanish Academy in Rome), of the publishing house of artists' books [https://elcanondegaribaldi.com/ El cañón de Garibaldi]. And he held an exhibition of all their work together at the New York Public Library in 2022.
He is married to writer and translator Carmen M. Caceres, with whom he has translated and written in collaboration and with whom he has a son and a daughter. He currently resides in Argentina.
Prizes and awards
- Finalist of the Herralde Novel Prize (2001), for La hermana de Katia (Katia's Sister)
- Torrente Ballester Narrative Prize (2006) for Versiones de Teresa (Versions of Teresa).
- Anagrama Essay Prize (2007) for La ceremonia del porno, co-written with Javier Montes.
- In 2010 he was selected by Granta Magazine in England as one of the twenty-two most important young Spanish-speaking writers.
- Juan March Prize for Fiction (2011) for Muerte de un caballo (Death of a Horse).
- Nord Sud Prize. Fondazione Pescara Abruzzo (Italy, 2012). For Ha dejado de llover.
- White Raven Prize. Internationale Jugenbibliotheck (Munich, 2012). For Up with the sky, down with the ground.
- Finalist of the Jaime Gil de Biedma Poetry Prize (2016) for Crónica natural.
- Herralde Novel Prize (2017) Finalist Gregor Von Rezzori Prize (Italy, 2019), Prix Frontières-Léonora Miano{{cite web | url=https://factuel.univ-lorraine.fr/node/17170 | title=Remise du prix littéraire " Frontières " Léonora Miano : Première édition, trois lauréats ! | date=22 June 2021 }} (France, 2021) for República luminosa (A Luminous Republic, Une république lumineuse) .
Translated into English
- Rain Over Madrid, translated by Lisa Dillman, Madrid: Hispabooks, 2014 [original title: Ha dejado de llover (2012)]
- August, October, translated by Lisa Dillman, Madrid: Hispabooks, 2015 [original title: Agosto, Octubre (2010)]
- Such Small Hands, translated by Lisa Dillman, Oakland: Transit Books, 2017 [original title: Las manos pequeñas (2008)] {{ISBN|9781945492006}}{{Cite book|title=Such small hands|last1=Barba|first1=Andrés|translator-last1=Dillman|translator-first1=Lisa|isbn=9781945492006|location=Oakland, California|oclc=981250523|year = 2017}}
- The Right Intention, translated by Lisa Dillman, Oakland: Transit Books, 2018 [original title: La recta intención (2002)] {{ISBN|9781945492068}}{{Cite book|title=The Right Intention.|date=2018|publisher=Transit Books|last1=Barba|first1=Andrés|translator-last1=Dillman| translator-first1=Lisa|isbn=9781945492068|oclc=974698313}}
- A Luminous Republic, translated by Lisa Dillman, Granta London, 2021.
Links
- [https://elcanondegaribaldi.com El Cañón de Garibaldi]
- [https://www.lemonde.fr/critique-litteraire/article/2020/06/24/une-republique-lumineuse-d-andres-barba-vert-paradis-de-la-cruaute_6044033_5473203.html Le Monde]
- [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/26/such-small-hands-andres-barba-review The Guardian]
- [https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/review-a-luminous-republic-such-small-hands-by-andres-barba/ The London Magazine]
- [https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/a-luminous-republic-andres-barba-review-mia-levitin/ Times Literary Supplement]
- [https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/such-small-hands-by-andres-barba-1.3365784 Irish Times]
- [https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/11/03/all-writers-have-a-corpse-in-their-closet-an-interview-with-andres-barba/ The Paris Review]
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Category:21st-century Spanish novelists
Category:Date of birth missing (living people)
Category:Academic staff of the Complutense University of Madrid