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Levert’s Appearance

José Adiak Montoya

Translated by Samantha Schnee

José Adiak Montoya

José Adiak Montoya (1987) was born in Managua, Nicaragua. His most recent novels are Lennon bajo el sol and Aunque nada perdure. In 2016, the Guadalajara International Book Fair featured him on their list of noteworthy Latin American writers born in the 1980s.

Photograph © Luza Alvarado

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Translated by Samantha Schnee

Samantha Schnee’s translation of Carmen Boullosa’s Texas: The Great Theft was shortlisted for the 2015 PEN America Translation Prize. She won the 2015 Gulf Coast Prize in Translation for her excerpt of Boullosa’s The Conspiracy of the Romantics, and her translation of Boullosa’s novel The Book of Anna was published by Coffee House Press in 2020.

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