Great Spanish Stories

Name: Great Spanish Stories - Penguin Random House South Africa
SKU: 9780241662199
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Various, Margaret Jull Costa, Thomas Bunstead, Peter Bush, Kathryn Phillips-Miles, Simon Deefholt, Kit Maude

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About the book

A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations

This new dual-language edition of ten stories selected from The Penguin Book of Spanish Short Stories celebrates some of the very best twentieth-century literature from Spain. Each story appears in Spanish alongside an expert English translation, providing unique cultural insight and literary inspiration for language learners. Ranging from a poignant tale of betrayal to a darkly humorous exchange between wedding guests, this captivating collection includes works from authors such as Leopoldo Alas (Clarín), Cristina Fernández Cubas, Medardo Fraile, Carmen Martín Gaite, Karmele Jaio, Carmen Laforet, Javier Marías, Carme Riera, Manuel Rivas, and Esther Tusquets.

About the Author

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Margaret Jull Costa

Margaret Jull Costa has translated the works of many Spanish and Portuguese writers, among them novelists: Javier Marías, José Saramago and Eça de Queiroz, and poets: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Fernando Pessoa and Ana Luísa Amaral. Her work has brought her numerous prizes, among them, the 2018 Premio Valle-Inclán for On the Edge by Rafael Chirbes. In 2013, she was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, in 2014, she was awarded an OBE for services to literature.

Thomas Bunstead

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Peter Bush

Peter Bush is an English literary translator. He was born in Lincolnshire in 1946. He earned a DPhil (the Oxford term for a PhD) in Spanish history and fiction from Oxford University. Bush has received a great number of awards for his translating work, including the 2015 La Creu de Sant Jordi, the most distinguished award given by the Generalitat of Catalonia, for the translation and promotion of Catalan literature. He has served on the editorial board of the Massachusetts Review since 2014.