Finals

Elsa Drucaroff, born and raised in Buenos Aires, is the author of four novels and two short story collections, and has written several essays on Argentine literature and feminism. She holds a PhD in social sciences and is a professor of literature at the University of Buenos Aires, where she has taught for several decades. Her first novel to be translated into English, Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case (Corylus Books, 2024), is a fictionalized account of one of Argentina’s canonical writers and his struggle against the brutal military dictatorship of the 1970s. (updated 10/2024)

Slava Faybysh is the translator of Elsa Drucaroff’s historical thriller Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case (Corylus Books, 2024). His translations from Spanish and Russian have appeared in New England Review, AGNI, The Southern Review, The Common, and elsewhere. His most recent translation, Influencers, Activists, and Women’s Rights: A Translation of Divorce in Spain (Modern Language Association, 2024), is a 1904 book of letters on the topic of legalization of divorce, compiled by the Spanish author Carmen de Burgos. (updated 10/2024)