Marta Sanz is an award-winning novelist, poet and essayist. Sanz has written fifteen novels and four collections of poetry, as well as contributing to anthologies and media publications like El País and El Mundo. Many of her novels have won prestigious prizes and four were included in El País's 100 Best Books of the Century. Katie King is a highly experienced translator of Spanish literature. She has translated numerous works including Luis García Montero’s Someone Speaks Your Name and One Year and Three Months. As a translator, journalist and scholar, King has been published in esteemed publications including Words Without Borders, World Literature Today and Columbia Journal, as well as in print anthologies by Graywolf Press and Ecco Press.

'Sanz's autofictional English-language debut is a poetic mediation on illness, mortality, and writing.'

Marta Sanz is an award-winning novelist, poet and essayist. Sanz has written fifteen novels and four collections of poetry, as well as contributing to anthologies and media publications like El País and El Mundo. Many of her novels have won prestigious prizes and four were included in El País's 100 Best Books of the Century. Katie King is a highly experienced translator of Spanish literature. She has translated numerous works including Luis García Montero’s Someone Speaks Your Name and One Year and Three Months. As a translator, journalist and scholar, King has been published in esteemed publications including Words Without Borders, World Literature Today and Columbia Journal, as well as in print anthologies by Graywolf Press and Ecco Press.

'Sanz's autofictional English-language debut is a poetic mediation on illness, mortality, and writing.'

Marta Sanz is an award-winning novelist, poet and essayist. Sanz has written fifteen novels and four collections of poetry, as well as contributing to anthologies and media publications like El País and El Mundo. Many of her novels have won prestigious prizes and four were included in El País's 100 Best Books of the Century. Katie King is a highly experienced translator of Spanish literature. She has translated numerous works including Luis García Montero’s Someone Speaks Your Name and One Year and Three Months. As a translator, journalist and scholar, King has been published in esteemed publications including Words Without Borders, World Literature Today and Columbia Journal, as well as in print anthologies by Graywolf Press and Ecco Press.

'Sanz's autofictional English-language debut is a poetic mediation on illness, mortality, and writing.'