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Monika Zgustova

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Monika Zgustova is an award-winning author whose works have been published in ten languages. She was born in Prague and studied comparative literature in the United States (University of Illinois and University of Chicago). She then moved to Barcelona, where she writes for El País, The Nation, and CounterPunch, among others. As a translator of Czech and Russian literature into Spanish and Catalan—including the writing of Havel, Kundera, Hrabal, Hašek, Dostoyevsky, Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva, and Babel—Zgustova is credited with bringing major twentieth-century writers to Spain.

Julie Jones is Professor Emeritus of Spanish at the University of New Orleans. She has published widely on the Latin American writers of the "Boom," with a focus on Luis Buñuel's work, in numerous articles for journals such as Cineaste and Cinema Journal.

Monika Zgustova Books

A Revolver to Carry at Night book cover

A Revolver to Carry at Night

Monika Zgustova
Dressed for a Dance in the Snow book cover

Dressed for a Dance in the Snow

Monika Zgustova
The Silent Woman book cover

The Silent Woman

Monika Zgustova
Fresh Mint with Lemon book cover

Fresh Mint with Lemon

Monika Zgustova
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