Contributions by Anna Hardin
Anna Hardin is a second-year student in the MFA in Literary Translation at the University of Iowa, where she has enjoyed involvement with the International Writing Program and bilingual readings for the MFA in Spanish Creative Writing. She is an avid consumer and translator of speculative fiction from English, Spanish, and Japanese. Her first published translation can be found in Alpinist Magazine.
Bellatin and Japan: an Interview
Mat Chiappe
translated by Anna Hardin
Mario Bellatin once said to me: “I don’t want to go to Japan.” I don’t know if we went on talking about something else or what happened, but I never got a better explanation. And so, when I was presented with the opportunity to interview him specifically about the relationship between lo japonés and his literature, I decided the most important thing for me was a response to that statement. I prepared a long list of other questions (as you’ll see, all useless), dressed as seriously as I could, stowed my computer in my backpack, and took the metro to his house. I rang the doorbell and waited until, from the other end of a long hallway, the author, filmmaker, lecturer, and translator appeared.
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