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Anna Kushner

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Anna Kushner

United States

Anna Kushner translates from Spanish, French, and Portuguese. She is the translator of the books The Halfway House and Leapfrog by Guillermo Rosales (New Directions), The Autobiography of Fidel Castro by Norberto Fuentes (W.W....

Norton), Jerusalem by Gonçalo Tavares (Dalkey Archive), Heretics and The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), and Sabers and Utopias by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), among other works. Her writing has appeared in Cuba Counterpoints, Dzanc Books Best of the Web 2008, The Bucks County Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Ep;phany, Newtown Literary, and Wild River Review.

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Articles by Anna Kushner

The Last Judgment

By Fátima Bettencourt

I was overcome by the unshakeable conviction that it was the end of the world.

Translated from Portuguese by Anna Kushner

Fidel in the Literary Imagination

By Anna Kushner

I was born to Cuban exiles after the Revolution. For me, Fidel was always there, openly when his image paraded across the TV news in our Philadelphia living room, or implicitly when I watched movies like…

Ernst and Mylia

By Gonçalo M. Tavares

Ernst Spengler was alone in his attic apartment, ready to throw himself out the already open window when, suddenly, the telephone rang

Translated from Portuguese by Anna Kushner

Boarding Home

By Guillermo Rosales

My angel . . . Were you ever a Communist?

Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner

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Ballad of Ventas Prison

By Jorge Garcia & Fidel Martinez

Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner

From Chapter 12, “The Autobiography of Fidel Castro”

By Norberto Fuentes

It's one of the Cuban Revolution's best kept secrets and perhaps now it would appear petty

Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner

Readymade

By Álvaro Enrigue

He was apt to score unbelievable goals whenever he could keep his balance on the field, something that didn't always happen: occasionally he fell over while fighting for the ball and couldn't get back up again because he was too drunk.

Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner

On the Death of the Author

By Álvaro Enrigue

There are stories that seem impossible to tell.

Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner

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From Chapter 1, “The Autobiography of Fidel Castro”

By Norberto Fuentes

This is the bucolic and archetypal Cuban landscape that I myself will destroy thirty years hence.

Translated from Spanish by Anna Kushner