Valerie Miles

Valerie Miles has translated such writers as Enrique Vila-Matas and Rafael Chirbes, among many others. She is the editor of A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction and, with Azar Nafisi, co-editor of That Other World: Nabokov and the Puzzle of Exile. She is also a co-founder of Granta en español. In 2013 Miles curated the first exhibition of Roberto Bolaño’s archive papers, held at Barcelona’s Center for Contemporary Culture. A contributor to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and El País, she lives in Barcelona, Spain, where she teaches translation and creative writing at the Pompeu Fabra University.
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