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Copyright © 2012 by Gabriela Arciniegas
Translation and introduction copyright © 2017 by Daniel Alarcón
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Originally published in Spanish as Memorias por Correspondencia by Laguna Libros (Colombia) and Fundación Arte Vivo Otero Herrera in 2012.
Drawings by Emma Reyes
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Reyes, Emma, 1919–2003, author. | Alarcâon, Daniel, 1977– translator.
Title: The book of Emma Reyes / Emma Reyes ; translated with an introduction by Daniel Alarcâon.
Other titles: Memoria por correspondencia. English
Description: New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2017. | Series: A Penguin classics hardcover | “Originally published in Spanish as Memoria por correspondencia, by Laguna Libros (Colombia) and Fundaciâon Arte Vivo Otero Herrera in 2012”—Title page verso.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017003039 (print) | LCCN 2017016042 (ebook) | ISBN 9781101992098 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143108689 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Reyes, Emma, 1919–2003—Correspondence. | Artists—Colombia—Correspondence. | Women artists—Colombia—Correspondence. | Reyes, Emma, 1919–2003—Childhood and youth. | Girls— Colombia—Biography. | Poor children—Colombia—Biography. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Caribbean & Latin American.
Classification: LCC N6679.R49 (ebook) | LCC N6679.R49 A3 2017 (print) | DDC 709.2 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017003039
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Cover design: Brianna Harden
Cover art: Emma Reyes, Untitled acrylic on paper, 1989 (exhibited in 1993 at the Galería Diners in Bogotá)
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