Simpatia: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Rodrigo Blanco Calderón is a writer and editor. He has received various awards for his stories both inside and outside Venezuela. In 2007, he was invited to join the Bogotá39 group, which brings together the best Latin American narrators under thirty-nine years old. In 2013, he was a guest writer at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. In 2014, his story “Emuntorios” was included in Thirteen Crime Stories from Latin America, volume number forty-six of McSweeney's. With his first novel, The Night (English translation Daniel Hahn and Noel Hernández González, Seven Stories Press 2022), he won the 2016 Paris Rive Gauche Prize, the Critics Award in Venezuela, and the 2019 Mario Vargas Llosa Biennial Prize. His story “The Mad People of Paris,” included in his collection, Sacrifices (English translation Thomas Bunstead, Seven Stories Press, 2022), won the O. Henry Prize and was included in The Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners, guest edited by Lauren Groff.

Daniel Hahn is a writer, translator and editor. His translation of The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agalusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. His translation of A General Theory of Oblivion, also by José Eduardo Agalusa, won the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award. His other translations include Pele’s autobiography and work by novelists José Luís Peixoto, Philippe Claudel, María Dueñas, José Saramago, Eduardo Halfon and others In 2017, Daniel Hahn donated half his winnings from the International Dublin Literary Award to help establish a new prize for debut literary translation – the TA First Translation Prize, administered by the Society of Authors in the UK. Daniel Hahn was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to literature. He won the 2023 Ottaway Award for the Promotion of International Literature.

Noel Hernández González is originally from Spain and has an MA in Literary Translation from the University of East Anglia. He is co-translator, with Daniel Hahn, of two novels by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón: The Night (Seven Stories Press 2022) and Simpatía (Seven Stories Press 2024).