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Edited and translated by

Margaret Jull Costa and Annella McDermott

THE EDITORS

Margaret Jull Costa has translated many novels and short
stories by Portuguese, Spanish and Latin American writers,
amongst them Bernardo Atxaga, Mario de Si-Carneiro,
Ramon del Valle-Inclan, Carmen Martin Gaite and Luisa
Valenzuela. She was joint-winner of the Portuguese Translation Prize in 1992 for her translation of The Book of Disquiet
by Fernando Pessoa and, with Javier Marias, she won the 1997
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for A Heart So
White.

Annella McDermott is a lecturer in the Department of
Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at the
University of Bristol. Previous translations include a biography of Simon Bolivar and The World of Mestre Tamoda by the
Angolan novelist Uanhenga Xitu.

The editors would like to thank the following for their
generous help and advice on various aspects of the anthology:
Bernardo Axtaga, Steve Howell, Javier Marias, Antonio
Martin, Pilar O'Prey, Ben Sherriff and Palmira Sullivan.