Proceed with Caution: A Novella and Stories

“…an intriguing introduction to Ratto’s unusual fiction.” – Terry Hong

Translation of prose fiction by Patricia Ratto (Schaffner Press, 2021)

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In the tradition of surrealist masters Julio Cortázar and Leonora Carrington, and joining contemporaries Guadalupe Nettel (Bezoar & Other Unsettling Stories) and Samanta Schweblin (Mouthful of Birds), Argentine writer Patricia Ratto’s English language debut collection, Proceed with Caution, offers an alternate reality that is both mysterious and familiar . . . Translated from the Spanish by PEN/Heim award-winner Andrea G. Labinger, Proceed With Caution is a striking collection, brimming with emotion, animal instinct, and a sense of wonder that announces the arrival of a compelling new voice in Latin American literature. – Goodreads

Andrea reads “Rara Avis,” one of the stories in Ratto’s collection, for Jill! Magazine. Watch Andrea’s Reading Here.

Click HERE to hear author Patricia Ratto discuss her work.

For a fuller discussion of Andrea’s 2021 translations, click here.

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“. . . con ecos de Mistral, Vallejo y Neruda, Gustavo Gac-Artigas, poeta y escritor chileno, nos entrega esta colección trilingüe de veintinueve poemas.” – David Unger

A translation of poetry by Gustavo Gac-Artigas in collaboration with Priscilla Gac-Artigas and Ada Mondès (Ediciones Nuevo Espacio, 2020)

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Call Me Magdalena

Translation of Alicia Steimberg’s Cuando digo Magdalena

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2001

Finalist in the PEN USA Literary Competition, 2002

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“Labinger’s thoughtful, fluid translation . . . makes available to an English-speaking audience the most important work within the Argentinian author’s fictional oeuvre.” –Shelley Godsland, Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

An Empty House

Translation of Carlos Cerda’s Una casa vacía

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2003

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“For the first time in English, the Argentine labyrinths of Edgar Brau…For an Argentine writer, the influence of Borges must be hard to resist, and many of the pages in Casablanca call to mind the epistemological vertigo, that mix of the real and fantastic, so characteristic of the older master. Brau’s stories, though, don’t feel like imitations so much as further explorations of the same geography of the imagination. Most of them are quite haunting.” -Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

“Casablanca,” in Casablanca and Other Stories

Co-translated with Donald and Joanne Yates

Michigan State University Press: Fall 2006

Finalist, PEN USA Competition, 2007

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“These brilliant and haunting stories, superbly translated…will introduce American readers to a contemporary Argentine fiction writer of startling power and subtlety, a writer whose stories it is no overstatement to mention in the same breath with those of Poe and Borges. Prospective readers of this book have a real treat in store.” –John T. Irwin, Decker Professor in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University

The Rainforest

Translation of Alicia Steimberg’s La selva

University of Nebraska Press, 2006

Finalist, PEN USA Competition, 2007

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Labinger’s melodic translation lyrically enhances Steimberg’s potently symbolic portrait of a woman in transition.” –Booklist

“From Argentine novelist Steimberg . . . comes a poetically written and beautifully translated perspective on personal happiness, solace, and mature love.” –Library Journal

“Steimberg’s eloquent and engrossing tale flows smoothly. . . . Steimberg has created an unforgettable protagonist who captures the sympathies of the reader as she attempts to overcome the tragedies of her life.”–Roberta Gordenstein, MultiCultural Review

“Steimberg’s prose is extraordinary: by turns earthy and ethereal, it is always compelling.” –Tower Light (Towson, MD)