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Kingdoms

Miluska Benavides

Translated by Katherine Silver

‘The day of the explosion, Bautista made his way through the camp as he had the previous days, months and years.’

Fiction by Miluska Benavides, translated by Katherine Silver.

Miluska Benavides

Miluska Benavides (1986) was born in Lima, Peru. In 2012 she translated Arthur Rimbaud’s A Season in Hell and her story collection, La caza espiritual, was published in 2015. She is in the process of completing Hechos, the novel from which ‘Kingdoms’ has been excerpted.

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Translated by Katherine Silver

Katherine Silver is a writer and an award-winning literary translator. She is the former director of the Banff International Literary Translation Centre and the author of Echo Under Story. She does volunteer interpreting for asylum seekers.

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