Rosalind Harvey

May 6, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Guadalupe Nettel |Rosalind Harvey |Idra Novey |Claire Bennett

Reading Lists Amy Key recommends books from across the world about solitude and its pleasures, desires and conflicts I thought it would be easy to compile a list of books where women live alone. And it was, but what is considerably less easy it to think about books where women live alone and don’t fall into, or emerge from, a completely deranged state. I asked friends, and one replied, “the first thing that came to mind was Marian Engel’s Bear, then I remembered she has sex with a bear.” We...

May 6, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Amy Key |Guadalupe Nettel |Rosalind Harvey |Idra Novey |Claire Bennett

Reading Lists Amy Key recommends books from across the world about solitude and its pleasures, desires and conflicts I thought it would be easy to compile a list of books where women live alone. And it was, but what is considerably less easy it to think about books where women live alone and don’t fall into, or emerge from, a completely deranged state. I asked friends, and one replied, “the first thing that came to mind was Marian Engel’s Bear, then I remembered she has sex with a bear.” We...

Aug 19, 2023 | bookreporter.com | Guadalupe Nettel |Rosalind Harvey

Near the beginning of Guadalupe Nettel’s STILL BORN, Laura writes that she and her twenty-something friends could be divided into two camps: those who imagined one day having children and those who, like Laura and her friend Alina, “were prepared to accept the disgrace heaped on them by society and family as long as they could preserve their autonomy.” But as Laura and Alina enter their mid-30s, their paths begin to diverge.

May 17, 2023 | thebookerprizes.com | Guadalupe Nettel |Rosalind Harvey |Frank Wynne |Maryse Condé

The story so far: Baby Pascal is strikingly beautiful, brown in complexion, with grey-green eyes like the sea. But where does he come from? Is he really the child of God? So goes the rumour, and many signs throughout his life will cause this theory to gain ground. From journey to journey and from one community to another, Pascal sets off in search of his origins, trying to understand the meaning of his mission.

Apr 5, 2023 | thebookerprizes.com | Guadalupe Nettel |Samanta Schweblin |Rosalind Harvey

Aside from the book, what other writing did you draw inspiration from for your translation? I’d worked on another book of Guadalupe’s before, and a few stories, so I think that helps in terms of the translation – you already have a feel for the way an author uses language and how they pull voices and stories together.