The National Telepathy

Roque Larraquy (Buenos Aires, 1975) is the author of the novels La comemadre (2011), translated into English, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Greek and Persian, nominated for the USA National Book Awards (2018), the National Translation Book Award (2018) and the Dublin Literary Award (2020); Informe sobre ectoplasma animal (2014), a book illustrated by visual artist Diego Ontivero, translated partially into English and Italian; and The National Telepathy chosen as one the best ten books in Spanish of 2020 by The New York Times , translated into Portuguese, English and French. Until 2022 Larraquy was the inaugural director of the BA in Creative Writing at the Universidad Nacional de Las Artes in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Frank Wynne is a literary translator. Born in Ireland, he moved to France in 1984 where he discovered a passion for language working as a bookseller in Paris. He began translating literature in the late 1990s before deciding to devote himself to this full time. He has translated works by Michel Houellebecq, Frédéric Beigbeder, Ahmadou Kourouma, Boualem Sansal, Claude Lanzmann, Tómas Eloy Martínez and Almudena Grandes. His work has earned him several awards, including the Scott Moncrieff Prize and the Premio Valle Inclán. Most recently, his translation of Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes was shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018. In 2022 his translation of The Art of Losing by Alice Zeniter won the Dublin Literary Award.