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Eduardo Halfon is the author of fifteen books of fiction published in Spanish. Mourning, published in English by Bellevue Literary Press in 2018, received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award (US), the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (France), and the Premio de las Librerías de Navarra (Spain). In 2018, he was awarded the Guatemalan National Prize in Literature, his country’s highest literary honor.

Bruna Dantas Lobato is a writer and translator. Her translation of Stênio Gardel’s The Words that Remain won the 2023 National Book Award for Translated Literature. Her debut novel, Blue Light Hours, is forthcoming in October 2024 from Grove Atlantic. Other fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Guernica, and A Public Space. She is currently Visiting Faculty at Bennington College for Spring 2024.