D.P. Snyder is a Hillsborough, North Carolina-based writer and Spanish-to-English literary translator. Her latest book-length translations include “Meaty Pleasures” by Mónica Lavín (2021) and “33 Dreams” by Juan Carlos Garvayo (2019 IBS Classical). Coming soon: “Arrhythmias” by Angelina Muñiz-Huberman (Literal Publishing). Other translations have appeared in Two Lines, Exile, Latin American Literature Today, World Literature Today, Reading in Translation, Asymptote, Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas, and elsewhere.
In collaboration with Director Steven Blier, she translates song lyrics for The New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) and writes about Latin music for the NYFOS blog Her translations also appear in anthologies, including Talking Books with Mario Vargas Llosa (Nebraska Press, 2021), and “Machetes Under Our Beds: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Daughters of Latin America” (coming soon from Harper Collins, Editor Sandra Guzmán).
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Review: “Arrhythmias” in Literal Magazine
Greg Walklin offers an insightful review of “Arrhythmias” in Literal Magazine.
Reading Bluebeard’s Egg
To become a great writer is precisely about discovering a language no one has ever heard before.
Mónica Crespo & I read from “Twins” (“Gemelos”, Las madres secretas, Editorial Base, 2018)
Women in translation are women united. We get by with a little help from our friends.
"Once the World’s Largest, a Hotel Goes ‘Poof!’ Before Our Eyes": @DanBarryNYT's obituary of The Hotel Pennsylvania is a literary ode not only to a building but also to a time when Americans still had dreams. It merits a prize for architectural writing. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/nyregion/hotel-pennsylvania-nyc.html?smid=tw-share
#PREMIOSREYESPAÑA | El trabajo premiado, realizado por el periodista Víctor Núñez Jaime, es un perfil riguroso en la investigación y en la narración del escritor nicaragüense, exiliado en Madrid debido a la persecución del Gobierno de Daniel Ortega.
https://www.milenio.com/cultura/laberinto/el-segundo-exilio-de-sergio-ramirez
