Charco Press is an independent publisher based in

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. Established in 2017 by Samuel McDowell and Carolina Orloff, Charco specialises in translating contemporary Latin American fiction into English. The publisher has met with notable success, with three titles so far nominated for the

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. Among other honours, it published the 2021 Premio Valle Inclan winner. Its titles have also been nominated for the Republic of Consciousness Award and the

TA First Translation Prize The TA First Translation Prize was established by Daniel Hahn in 2017 and is awarded annually to for a debut literary translation, to be shared equally between the first-time translator and their editor. About the prize The prize was established ...

. It was named Scotland Small Press of the Year 2021 and 2019 at the

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), and has been nominated as Publisher of the Year in the Scottish National Literary Awards. In 2021, three of the five nominees for the Premio Valle Inclan were published by Charco. The award was won by Fionn Petch for her translation of ''A Musical Offering'' by

Luis Sagasti Luis Sagasti (born 1963) is an Argentine writer and art critic. He was born in Bahía Blanca Bahía Blanca (; English: White Bay) is a city in the southwest of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, by the Atlantic Ocean, and is the seat of go ...

. It has recently obtained the rights for Jeferson Tenório's novel ''The Flipside of Skin'', which was the 2021 winner of Brazil's most prestigious literary prize, the

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Published authors

* Katya Adaui *

Selva Almada Selva Almada (born 5 April 1973) is an Argentine writer of poetry, short stories, and novels. She expanded into nonfiction in 2014 with the book ''Chicas muertas''. Career Selva Almada studied Social Communication in Paraná, although she left ...

* Ave Barrera * Cristina Bendek * Gabriela Cabezon Camara *

Sergio Chejfec Sergio Chejfec (28 November 1956 – 2 April 2022) was an Argentine Jewish writer. He was born in Buenos Aires in 1956. Chejfec published eighteen books, including novels, essays, short stories, and a poetry collection. From 1990 to 2005 he lived ...

Giuseppe Caputo Giuseppe Caputo (born 1982) is a Colombian writer. He was born in Barranquilla on the Caribbean coast, and studied both in Colombia and in the United States. He has an MFA in creative writing from New York University and the University of Iowa. ...

* Renato Cisneros * Jorge Consiglio *

Jennifer Croft Jennifer Croft is an American author, critic and Translation, translator who works from Polish language, Polish, Ukrainian language, Ukrainian and Rioplatense Spanish, Argentine Spanish. With the author Olga Tokarczuk, she was awarded the 2018 Man ...

Diamela Eltit Diamela Eltit in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean writer and university professor. She is a recipient of the National Prize for Literature. Life Diamela Eltit graduated from college from Universidad Católica de Chile and pursued graduate stu ...

* Federico Falco * Rodrigo Fuentes * Julian Fuks * Margarita Garcia Robayo *

Margo Glantz Margo Glantz Shapiro (; born January 28, 1930) is a Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic. She has been a member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua since 1995. She is a recipient of the FIL Award. Biography Margo Glantz's family ...

Daniel Hahn Daniel Hahn (born 26 November 1973) is a British writer, editor and translator. He is the author of a number of works of non-fiction, including the history book ''The Tower Menagerie'', and one of the editors of The Ultimate Book Guide, a ser ...

Ariana Harwicz Ariana Harwicz (Buenos Aires, 1977) is an Argentine writer, screenwriter, playwright and documentary maker. She earned a degree in performing arts from the University of Paris VII and a Master's in comparative literature from the Sorbonne. Her firs ...

Andrea Jeftanovic Andrea Jeftanovic (born October 15, 1970, in Santiago de Chile) is a Chilean author, sociologist and academic. Jeftanovic was three when the September 11, 1973 Chilean military coup took place. She grew up under Augusto Pinochet's military regim ...

Martin Kohan Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austral ...

* Brenda Lozano * Ana Paula Maia * Carla Maliandi * Sebastian Martinez Daniell *

Daniel Mella Daniel Mella (born Montevideo, 1976) is a Uruguayan Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest ...

* Sylvia Molloy *

Claudia Piñeiro Claudia Piñeiro (born 1960) is an Argentine novelist and screenwriter, best known for her crime and mystery novels, most of which became best sellers in Argentina. She was born in Burzaco, Buenos Aires province. She has won numerous literary p ...

* Giovanna Rivero * Ricardo Romero *

* Daniel Saldana Paris * Karla Suarez * Fernanda Trias *

Ida Vitale Ida Vitale (born 2 November 1923) is a Uruguayan poet, translator, essayist, lecturer and literary critic. Life She played an important role in the Uruguayan art movement known as the 'Generation of 45': Carlos Maggi, Manuel Flores Mora, Án ...

References

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