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In Ambassador of Nowhere, Richard Gwyn takes the reader on a series of journeys across Latin America, in search of poems for his landmark anthology, The Other Tiger. He is driven through lunar landscapes in Patagonia, walks in the temperate rainforests of southern Chile and travels to a town on the Rio Magdalena that may or may not exist. From the betrayal of revolution in Nicaragua to the victims of guerrilla war in Colombia and the threat of narco gang violence in Mexico, Gwyn’s lyrical, life-affirming account pays homage to a deeply conflicted and paradoxical continent and its writers. Ambassador of Nowhere is also a book about translation, and the multiple representations of reality that the act of translation sets in motion, even as the author struggles to keep his own life on track when confronted by the demons of an earlier existence.

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Richard Gwyn is poet and translator and Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University. He spent ten years travelling on and around the Mediterranean, much of it recorded in his award-winning memoir, The Vagabond’s Breakfast. He has also published three poetry collections, most recently Stowaway (2018), two anthologies of poetry, three novels, many articles and stories. His most recent novel is The Blue Tent (2019). He also works as a translator from Spanish, and published a major anthology of Latin American Poetry, The Other Tiger in 2016. He has also translated collections of poetry by the Argentine poets Joaquín O. Giannuzzi and Jorge Fondebrider. His most recent book of translation is a selection of poems by the Colombian Darío Jaramillo, titled Impossible Loves (2019).

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