Hebe Uhart was born in a small town in the province of Buenos Aires in 1936 and died in the city of Buenos Aires in 2018. She worked as a teacher and writer and received the Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Award for Literature in 2017. Uhart is renowned as one of the most original voices in the Spanish language. (updated 4/2019)

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Maureen Shaughnessy’s translations have been published by World Literature Today, Words Without Borders, AGNI, A**symptote, and The Antioch Review. Her translation of Hebe Uhart’s selected stories, The Scent of Buenos Aires, is forthcoming from Archipelago Books in October 2019. She lives in Bariloche, Argentina. (updated 4/2019)