ANNE McLEAN has translated works by many Spanish and Latin American authors, including Héctor Abad, Javier Cercas, Carmen Martín Gaite, Julio Cortázar, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Tomás Eloy Martínez. Her previous translations have been awarded the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the Premio Valle Inclán, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. She lives in Toronto.