A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Agustín Fernández Mallo was born in La Coruña, Spain, in 1967, and is a physicist. In 2000 he formulated a self-termed theory of “post-poetry,” which explores connections between art and science and has been the principal focus in several prizewinning collections of poetry. His long essay Postpoesía, hacia un nuevo paradigma (Post-poetry: Toward a New Paradigm) was short-listed for the Anagrama Essay Prize in 2009. In 2018 his long essay Teoría general de la basura (cultura, apropriacionismo y complejidad) (General Theory of Trash: Culture, Appropriationism, and Complexity) was published, and in the same year his latest novel, Trilogía de la guerra, won the Biblioteca Breve Prize.

The Nocilla Project, published in Spain between 2006 and 2009, is regularly cited as an influence by young writers; the first installment, Nocilla Dream, was voted one of the top ten novels of the 2000s in Quimera and was selected as one of the best novels of 2015 by The Guardian following its translation into English. His work has been translated into numerous languages. You can sign up for email updates here.

    

A NOTE ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR

Thomas Bunstead is a writer and translator based in East Sussex, England. He has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, including Yuri Herrera, Enrique Vila-Matas, and Juan Villoro, and his own writing has appeared in publications such as >kill author, The White Review, and The Times Literary Supplement. He is an editor at the translation journal In Other Words. He can be found on Twitter at @_thom_bunn.