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Rosalind Harvey Translator, Author & Editor

Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. His first novel, Down the Rabbit Hole, was the first translation to be shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (in 2011). He writes regularly for publications including Granta and translated Rodrigo de Souza Leao's novel All Dogs are Blue (also published by And Other Stories) into Spanish. His work has been translated into fifteen languages. He lives in Barcelona and has two children. Quesadillas is his second novel; his third will be published by And Other Stories in 2016. ------- Rosalind Harvey's translation of Down the Rabbit Hole was shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and the PEN translation prize as well as the Guardian First Book Award. Her co-translation of Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas was shortlisted for the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and longlisted for the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She is a founding member and chair of the Emerging Translators Network.