Nancy: Bruno Lloret and Ellen Jones in conversation with Kathryn Scanlan
5:30 pm PT | 6:30 pm MT | 7:30 pm CT | 8:30 pm ET
Virtual Event
Join us for an event celebrating Bruno Lloret’s Nancy(opens in a new tab), a powerful coming-of-age story that tracks Nancy’s youth through remote memories of her Chilean childhood, translated by Ellen Jones. Chilean author Bruno Lloret and translator Ellen Jones join Kathryn Scanlan to discuss his innovative use of typography and illustration to capture his narrator’s waning sense of consciousness.
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Bruno Lloret (Santiago de Chile, 1990) is a writer and researcher. He has published Nancy (Cuneta, Santiago de Chile, 2015; Two Lines Press, 2020), which received an honorable mention for the Roberto Bolaño Award for novella, and Leña (Overol, Santiago de Chile, 2018). He currently lives in London.
Ellen Jones is a literary translator from Spanish to English, an editor, and an occasional writer based in Mexico City. Her book Language in Motion: Translating Multilingualism Across the Americas is forthcoming from Columbia University Press. You can find her at www.ellencjones.com.
Kathryn Scanlan is the author of Aug 9—Fog and The Dominant Animal. She lives in Los Angeles.