Posted on November 18, 2024
Nurit Kasztelan (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1982) is the author of the novel Tanto (2023), which was the recipient of an honorable mention for the National Award for Literature from the National Endowments of The Arts, and the poetry collections Movimientos Incorpóreos, Lógica de los accidentes and Después, which were published in English by Cardboard House Press as Awaiting Major Events. She coordinated the reading series La manzana en el gusano and co-edited the magazine No-retornable. She is co-editor of the publishing house Excursiones and runs an atypical bookshop in her house: MiCasa. She attended the Campo Garzon residency in Uruguay and is currently in the International Writing program in Iowa. She will attend Vermont studio center at December.
Maureen Shaughnessy translated The Scent of Buenos Aires by Hebe Uhart (Archipelago, 2019), shortlisted for the 2020 PEN Translation Prize; Awaiting Major Events by Nurit Kasztelan (Cardboard House, 2021); Why Did You Come Back Every Summer by Belén López Peiró (Charco, 2024), winner of an English PEN Translates Award; and she co-translated January by Sara Gallardo (Archipelago, 2023), shortlisted for the 2024 Queen Sofia Translation Prize. She received a grant at Translation House Looren to work on Cautery, by Lucía Lijtmaer (Charco, 2025).