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"An impassioned portrait of an enigmatic subject, the Mexican writer Elena Garro, that chases her tumultuous life through the letters, books, rumors, and rituals that came to define it"--

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Main Author:	Barrera Velázquez, Jazmina, 1988- (Author)
Other Authors:	MacSweeney, Christina (Translator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English Spanish
Published:	[San Francisco, California] : Two Lines Press, 2025.
Subjects:	Garro, Elena. Authors, Mexican > 20th century > Biography. Biographies.
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Summary:	"An impassioned portrait of an enigmatic subject, the Mexican writer Elena Garro, that chases her tumultuous life through the letters, books, rumors, and rituals that came to define it"--
Item Description:	Place of publication from publisher's website. "Originally published as: La reina de espadas"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:	247 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247).
ISBN:	9781949641875 1949641872
Author Notes:	Jazmina Barrera was born in Mexico City in 1988. She is the author of six books in Spanish: Cuerpo extraño , Cuaderno de faros , Linea nigra , Los nombres de los animals (a Children's Book) , Punto de cruz and La reina de espadas. She has also co-written the books Nuestro plan de fiesta (with Camila Fabbri) and Rituales para la amistad (with Daniela Rea and Elvira Liceaga). Her books have been published in nine countries and translated to English, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and French. This is her fourth book translated by Christina MacSweeney and published by Two Lines, including Linea Nigra , which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle's Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Autobiography Prize . She is editor and co-founder of Ediciones Antílope. She lives in Mexico City. In addition to Christina MacSweeney 's work with Jazmina Barrera, she has translated works by such authors as Elvira Navarro, Valeria Luiselli, Daniel Saldaña París, Julián Herbert, and Karla Suárez. She has also contributed to several anthologies of Latin American literature. In recent years, her translation of Jazmina Barrera's Cross-Stitch was shortlisted for the Queen Sofía Institute Translation Prize, Elvira Navarro's Rabbit Island was longlisted for a National Book Award, and Clyo Mendoza's Fury is currently shortlisted for the Valle Inclán Translation Prize. In 2024, she was granted a Sundial Literary Translation Award for her translation of Verónica Gerber Bicecci's The Company . "