Jonathan Dunne

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Jonathan Dunne, Literary Translator

Prizes

Nominated:

2003 International IMPAC Award (The Carpenter's Pencil)
2004 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize (In the Wilderness)
2008 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (Montano's Malady)
2009 Warwick Prize for Writing (Montano's Malady)
2009 Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation (From Unknown to Unknown)

Translations

From Bulgarian:

Iana Boukova in Take Five 07 (Shoestring Press, 2007)
Tsvetanka Elenkova, The Seventh Gesture (Shearsman Books, 2010)

From Catalan:

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

From Galician:

Jonathan Dunne (ed.), Anthology of Galician Literature 1196-1981 (Edicións Xerais-Editorial Galaxia, 2010)
Manuel Rivas, The Carpenter's Pencil (Harvill Press, 2001; Overlook Press, 2001)
Manuel Rivas, Vermeer's Milkmaid & Other Stories (Harvill Press, 2002; Overlook Press, 2008)
Manuel Rivas, In the Wilderness (Harvill Press, 2003; Overlook Press, 2006)
Manuel Rivas, From Unknown to Unknown (Small Stations Press, 2009)
Manuel Rivas, Books Burn Badly (Harvill Secker, 2010)

From Spanish:

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

Individual translations in: International Literary Quarterly, Modern Poetry in Translation, Orient Express, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales (UK); Absinthe, Calque, Zoland (US); Europe 2001, Literaturen Vestnik (Bulgaria); Karaoke Poetry Bar, Poems of Greek Texture (Greece)

Publications

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

Individual publications in: Iota (UK); Goma de borrar (Argentina); Europe 2001, Hristiyanstvo i Kultura, Literaturen Vestnik, Literaturni Balkani, Panorama, Slovoto, Trud (Bulgaria); Aerea (Chile); Helios, Poems of Greek Texture (Greece); El País, Turia (Spain)

Editions

Foreword & edition for the bilingual Anthology of Galician Literature 1196-1981 (Edicións Xerais-Editorial Galaxia, 2010)

Foreword for Reynol Pérez Vázquez, Memorias del tedio (Editorial Font, 2006)

Foreword for Tsvetanka Elenkova, The Seventh Gesture (Shearsman Books, 2010)

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

Selection of poems for Manuel Rivas, From Unknown to Unknown (Small Stations Press, 2009)

Contributor to the American blog Absinthe Minded (2008- ) and the Galician supplement of El País (2010- )

Photographs

Cover and interior for issue 10 of Absinthe (2008)

Cover and interior for issue 40 of Hristiyanstvo i Kultura (2009)

Cover for Tsvetanka Elenkova, The Seventh Gesture (Shearsman Books, 2010)

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