Best European Fiction, 2014, Dalkey Archive Press
Best European Fiction, 2014, Dalkey Archive Press
… Most honoured to have a story, ´Oestrogen´, translated by Rosie Marteau, in Best European Fiction, 2014, Dalkey Archive Press … It´s a prestigious, beautiful anthology that I´ve buying every year … Never thought I´d be part of it one day … ´Oestrogen´ is most special. It was adapted from an unfinished novel in Spanish about dreams, Slumberville … I had to quickly send a Spanish story to Rosie Marteau, so she could submit it to Dalkey Archive … I originally adapted a few bits from the novel … and it just didn´t work … it presupposed too much knowledge in previous chapters … So I went to bed and asked my dreams to please help me … and my dream told me to adapt certain bits … … …
Sunday, 1 December 2013