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José Manuel Prieto

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José Manuel Prieto

José Manuel Prieto was born in Havana in 1962. He has lived in Mexico City since 1995. His novel Livadia was published in English in 2001 as Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire. Prieto has translated poems by Anna Akhmatova, and Josef Brodsky, as well as prose by Andre Platonov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Vladimir Nabokov....

In 2002, he published El tartamudo y la rusa and Treinta días en Moscú. That same year he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. This year he is a Fellow at the New York Public Library's Center for Scholars and Writers.

From “REX”

By José Manuel Prieto

To turn the stone over in the palm of my hand, scrutinize it more closely, a real stone, a diamond in the rough?

Translated from Spanish by Esther Allen

You’ve Never Seen Red Like This Before

By José Manuel Prieto

Perhaps this is the best moment to dispel any doubts the reader may have with regard to my intellectual seriousness and capacity (I doubt the list of authors included above had much effect).

Translated from Spanish by Esther Allen

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José Manuel Prieto

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Articles by José Manuel Prieto

From “REX”

You’ve Never Seen Red Like This Before