

Of Caribbean writing, in association with the Caribbean Translation Project. The following interview with Achy Obejas,Ĭonducted by email, is part of SWAN’s series of conversations with translators Her most recent short story collection, The Tower of theĪntilles (2017), was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner award. Prize for her journalistic work, alongside National Endowment for the Arts andįord fellowships. Is the recipient of multiple awards, including a Lambda Award and a Pulitzer Translated into several other languages as well). Guerra’s Revolution Sunday and Everyone Leaves (which has been Wao, and translated into English Hernández’s novel Tentacle and

She has translated into Spanish Díaz’s The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Including Caribbean writers Junot Díaz, Rita Indiana Hernández and Wendy Guerra. A translator, Havana-born Obejas has translated the writing of several authors,
