No World Concerto (34 page)

Barcelona, Paris, Ceret,

April 1994–July 2005

A. G. PORTA was born in Barcelona in 1954. He gained prominence in the Spanish literary world when he won the Ámbito Literario de Narrativa Prize in 1984 for a novel written with Roberto Bolaño. After a silence of over ten years — which Bolaño claimed that Porta spent reading and rereading Joyce — he began publishing novels to widespread critical acclaim.

DARREN KOOLMAN was born in 1982 on the island of Aruba, in the Netherlands Antilles. He is a poet and literary translator from Spanish, French, and Dutch. He has an M.Phil in creative writing from Trinity College Dublin.

RHETT MCNEIL has translated work by Machado de Assis, António Lobo Antunes, and Gonçalo M. Tavares.