Kazbek - Leonardo Valencia

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Biographie:
Hillary Gulley is an award-winning translator of fiction and poetry from Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. She has served as a guest editor for Words Without Borders and taught literary translation at Baruch College and Drew University. Her extensive work on Cuban writers has been anthologized, most recently, in Island In The Light/Isla en la luz (Tra Publishing, 2019). Leonardo Valencia was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1969. He is the author of a short story collection, La luna n?mada (1995), the novels El desterrado (2000), El libro flotante (2006), Kazbek (2008), and La escalera de Bramante (2019), and the essay collections El s?ndrome de Falc?n (2008), Viaje al c?rculo de fuego (2014), and Moneda al aire: sobre la novela y la cr?tica (2017). His work has been included in over fifteen international anthologies and translated into English, French, Italian, Hebrew, and Bulgarian. In 2007 the Hay Festival de Bogot? 39 recognized him as one of Latin America's most prominent writers. He is a Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the Universidad Andina Sim?n Bol?var in Quito.