Jonathan Dunne

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Jonathan Dunne, Literary Translator

Prizes

Nominated:

2008 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (Montano)
2004 Oxford Weidenfeld Prize (In the Wilderness)
2003 International IMPAC Award (The Carpenter's Pencil)

Translations

From Bulgarian:

13 poems by Iana Boukova in Take Five 07 (Shoestring Press, 2007)

From Catalan:

Carme Riera, In the Last Blue (Overlook Press, 2007)

From Galician:

Manuel Rivas, In the Wilderness (Harvill Secker, 2003; Overlook Press, 2006)
Manuel Rivas, Vermeer's Milkmaid & Other Stories (Harvill Secker, 2002)
Manuel Rivas, The Carpenter's Pencil (Harvill Secker, 2001; Overlook Press, 2001)

From Spanish:

Alicia Giménez-Bartlett, Death Rites (Europa Editions, 2008)
Enrique Vila-Matas, Montano (Harvill Secker, 2007; New Directions, 2007)
Enrique Vila-Matas, Bartleby & Co. (Harvill Secker, 2004; New Directions, 2004)

Individual translations in: Modern Poetry in Translation, Orient Express, Poetry Wales (UK); Absinthe (US); Europe 2001, Literature Newspaper (Bulgaria); Karaoke Poetry Bar, Poems of Greek Texture (Greece)

Publications

The DNA of the English Language (Small Stations Press, 2007) - study of word connections
Even Though That (Proxima-RP, 2004) - poetry with parallel Bulgarian translation

Individual publications in: Iota (UK); Goma de borrar (Argentina); Christianity & Culture, Europe 2001, Literary Balkans, Literature Newspaper, Panorama, Trud (Bulgaria); Aerea (Chile); Helios, Poems of Greek Texture (Greece); El País, Turia (Spain)

Editions

Editor of Modern English Poetry - series of poetry in Bulgarian translation

Editor of The Epistle (London, 2003-4) - church magazine

Foreword for Reynol Pérez Vázquez, Memorias del tedio (forthcoming)

Foreword & selection of poems for Raymond Carver, Kasmet (Small Stations Press, 2008)

Education

Oxford University (1990) - BA Hons, MA, in Classics

Barcelona University (1992) - Diploma of Hispanic Studies

Santiago de Compostela University (1994) - Advanced Diplomas in Galician Language & Culture

Sofia University (2004) - Diploma in Bulgarian

Jonathan Dunne can be contacted via the website www.smallstations.com