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Awards Society of Authors Valle Inclan Prize 2019 --Shortlist Casa de las Americas Prize --Winner (Worse Things) Reviews/Endorsements Garcia Robayo's prose bristles with restrained energy and a wry humour which captures the disaffection of her characters. --Times Literary Supplement [Fish Soup] is a gorgeous, blackly humorous look into the lives of Colombians struggling to find their place in society, both at home and abroad. --Publishers Weekly, starred review Garcia Robayo's prose is concise and startling, her voice versatile and capable of packing a serious punch --LA Review of Books This is a text written from within the belly of the beast. (...) One of the most essential books of the year. --Sarah Booker, Asymptote An evocative collection that conveys the potency of desire in even the most ordinary lives. --Kirkus Reviews The tackiness of the Caribbean coast and its discontents are marvellously rendered. --Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year 2018 There are very few writers who can challenge expectations the way Margarita Garcia Robayo does. Margarita is simply one of the best of the new generation that respects, yet no longer identifies with, the Latin American Boom. --Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire Garcia Robayo is building one of the most solid and interesting oeuvres in Latin American literature. --Juan Cardenas Margarita shows sharp insight into contemporary life. Her voice speaks with surreptitious irony and sophisticated psychological perception. She is the creator of an exceptional poetics of displacement. --Juan Villoro Her stories combine the atmosphere of Desperate Housewives, Hemingway's iceberg theory and a memorable, bittersweet ending. --Jorge Carrion Full of everyday details that reveal the most vulnerable aspects of feminine subjectivity. --La Nacion (Argentina) One of the most potent figures of contemporary Latin American literature. --Ines Martin Rodrigo, ABC (Spain)

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Margarita García Robayo was born in 1980 in Cartagena, Colombia, and now lives in Buenos Aires where she teaches creative writing and works as a journalist and scriptwriter. She is the author of several novels, including Hasta que pase un huracán (Waiting for a Hurricane ) and Educación Sexual (Sexual Education , both included in Fish Soup ), Holiday Heart, and Lo que no aprendí (The Things I have Not Learnt). She is also the author of a book of autobiographical essays Primera Persona (First Person, forthcoming with Charco Press) and several collections of short stories, including Worse Things , which obtained the prestigious Casa de las Américas Prize in 2014 (also included in Fish Soup ). TheDelivery is her third book to appear in English after the very successful Fish Soup (selected by the TLS as one of the best fiction titles of 2018) and Holiday Heart (Winner of the English PEN Award). Charlotte Coombe is a British literary translator working from Spanish, French and Catalan into English. Shortlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize 2023 and winner of the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award 2022, she has translated more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction by authors including Anna Pazos, Rosa Ribas, Marvel Moreno, Antonio Díaz Oliva, Vincent Doumeizel, Frédéric Laffont, Eduardo Berti and Abnousse Shalmani. Her translations have been published in literary journals such as The White Review,The Southern Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Latin American Literature Today, Asymptote, Words Without Borders, and_World Literature Today_ . For Charco Press, she has translated three titles: Ricardo Romero’s The President’s Room (2017), Margarita García Robayo’s Fish Soup (2018) (Shortlisted for the Valle Inclán Translation Prize in 2019) and Holiday Heart (2020).

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