Adventures and Misadventures with author Max Besora and translator Mara Faye Lethem

Curator: Mara Faye Lethem
Participants: Max Besora, Mara Faye Lethem
Book title: THE ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES OF JOAN ORPÍ
Author: Max Besora
Translator: Mara Faye Lethem
Publisher (ENG): Open Letter
Publisher (Original): Males Herbes
Language: Catalan
Country: Catalonia, Spain
Bios and links: Max Besora holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Barcelona. He is the author of the novels Vulcano (2011), The Marvelous Technique: a campus novel (2014), The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpi, Conquistador and Founder of Catalonia (2017) which received the 2018 City of Barcelona Prize for Catalan Literature; the music essay Trapology (2018), co-written with Borja Bagunyà; and, most recently, the crime novel The Fake Muse (2020).
Mara Faye Lethem is an award-winning translator and author of A Person’s A Person, No Matter How Small (Antibookclub, 2020). She lives in Barcelona and Brooklyn, and is currently translating When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà.
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incidental music by Robert Moreland