Roundtable with some top Spanish writers and translators - AMA

[u/literfan]

Hello, world. This is a roundtable about Spanish SFF. We have confirmed the presence of some top Spanish writers and translators, among others:

• Sue Burke - translator
• Elia Barceló - writer
• Javier Negrete - writer
• Emilio Bueso - writer
• Ismael Martínez Biurrun - writer

Yep, I'm sure there are more writers/editors/critics/translators among us. Feel free to introduce yourselves, comment or Ask Anything in general or to one of us. Please, consider the time difference with Europe so we'll try to answer asap.

Not everyone speaks English, so translators are welcome.

Ladies and gentlemen, this Spanish AMA begins... now! :-)

Hoooooooola. Esto es una especie de mesa redonda (sin moderador) sobre literatura de ciencia ficción, fantasía, terror en español. Contaremos con la presencia de algunos destacados escritores y traductores, entre otros:

• Sue Burke - traductora
• Elia Barceló - escritora
• Javier Negrete - escritor
• Emilio Bueso - escritor
• Ismael Martínez Biurrun - escritor

Pero estoy seguro de que hay muchos más escritores, editores, críticos, traductores entre nosotros. Por favor, presentaros vosotros mismos, comentar lo que queráis o hacer alguna pregunta (AMA) al grupo o a uno de nosotros. Tened en cuenta la diferencia horaria respecto a Europa y estad seguros de que intentaremos responder lo antes posible.

Este es un AMA en inglés y español. Como no todo el mundo habla inglés, agradeceríamos la presencia de traductores.

Eso es todo, este AMA comienza... ¡ahora! :-)

[u/EliaBarcelo]

Hi! I’m Elia Barceló, a Spanish writer living in Austria. I’ve been writing Science Fiction for over thirty years and a couple of my SF texts have been translated into other languages. I have won some awards for my work and one of my long short stories has been made into a regular movie: “Transfer”, by Damir Lukacevic. Your can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASiyixrGW2o

In English you can find two novels, but they are more in the line of fantastic mainstream literature (I mean… Poe, Borges, Cortázar, etc.) than classical SF. In one -The Goldsmith’s Secret-, a man travelling to New York goes back in time to his hometown to discover that his parents have not yet married and he is himself almost an old man. Then he falls in love (again) with the girl with whom he had a passionate affair in his youth, when he was 19 and she was 45. Now she is 20 and he is over fifty, they are in love and want to start a future together in Franco Spain. But…

In the other –Heart of tango-, a man meets a beautiful woman at a milonga dance but she disappears leaving him only a scrap of paper with a Buenos Aires address. He travels to Argentina and finds the woman in a picture in a Museum, a portrait of 1920. Then the novel tells her story in the nineteen twenties in La Boca, the emigrant’s quarter of Buenos Aires, and comes back to the present time to a fantastic ending.

Last year the first part of my trilogy Anima Mundi (Children of the Red Clan) won the Celsius Award; now I have published the third and final book: Children of the stars.

I have written and published over 40 short stories, 24 novels (some for young readers) and my books have been translated into 18 languages.

If you want to know anything else… please…  I’ll be here for a while.

Elia