Megan McDowell is an American literary translator.[1] She principally translates Spanish-language works into English. Originally from Kentucky, she studied English at DePaul University in Chicago. Upon graduation, she worked at the Dalkey Archive Press. She then moved to Chile, moving back to the US after three years to study translation at the UT Dallas. Her first work of translation was Alejandro Zambra's The Private Lives of Trees. Since then, she has collaborated with Zambra on several more books.[2]
Among other books she has translated are:
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra
Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
My Documents by Alejandro Zambra
Seeing Red by Lina Meruane
Nervous System by Lina Meruane
Humiliation by Paulina Flores
The Crossed-Out Notebook by Nico Giacobone
My Favorite Girlfriend was a French Bulldog by Legna Rodriguez
Yesterday by Juan Emar
Camanchaca by Diego Zúñiga
Under This Terrible Sun by Carlos Busqued
Not to Read by Alejandro Zambra
Dead Stars by Álvaro Bisama
Colonel Lágrimas by Carlos Fonseca Suarez
Natural History by Carlos Fonseca Suarez
Older Brother by Daniel Mella
Divorce Is in the Air by Gonzalo Torné
La Vida Doble by Arturo Fontaine
Fantasia by Alejandro Zambra
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar by Virginia Vallejo
Son of Black Thursday by Alejandro Jodorowsky
McDowell lives and works in Santiago de Chile.
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MeganMcDowell is an American literary translator. She principally translates Spanish-language works into English. Originally from Kentucky, she studied...
2014. In 2015, McDowell directed Sarah Silverman's untitled HBO series pilot. The project was not picked up by the network. McDowell's next film, The...
International Prize for the English translation by American literary translator MeganMcDowell of Mouthful of Birds. In 2020 she was again longlisted for the Man Booker...
Argentina in November 2009. The book was translated to English in 2021 by MeganMcDowell. This book has been critically acclaimed and was shortlisted for the...
Megan McDowell. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. My Documents. Translated by MeganMcDowell. McSweeney's, 2015. Multiple Choice. Translated by Megan McDowell...
alongside whom McDowell would appear in the film Doomsday (2008). The family moved to Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, where McDowell's father was stationed...
(tr. MeganMcDowell for Riverhead Books, 2017), Little Eyes (tr. MeganMcDowell for Riverhead Books, 2020), Mouthful of Birds (tr. MeganMcDowell for Riverhead...
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presenter MeganMcDonald (born 1959), American writer MeganMcDonnell, American screenwriter MeganMcDowell, American literary translator MeganMcGinnis (born...
Kellogg's Honey Smacks Cereal". Retrieved July 13, 2018. Friedman, Megan; McDowell, Maya. "[UPDATE] Honey Smacks Cereal Is Going Back On Sale After A...
Originally published in Spanish, it was translated into English by MeganMcDowell in 2019. The stories feature uncanny plot twists and unexpected endings...
This edition was reprinted by David R. Godine, Publisher in 1979. MeganMcDowell revised the translation, adding the previously untranslated text, and...
MeganMcDowell, Deep Vellum, USA (Atlantic Books, UK, 2016), ISBN 9781941920251; original edition Sangre en el ojo Nervous System translated by Megan...
logic of policing are necessary towards actualizing police abolition. MeganMcDowell and Luis Fernandez state that "by attacking the police as an institution...
Sitcoms You Probably Never Saw. BearManor Media. Crump, William D. (2013-08-28). The Christmas Encyclopedia, 3d ed. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0573-9....
include Alicia M. Soderberg and Planet Hunters scientist Megan Schwamb. In his free time, McDowell conducts research into the history of spaceflight, and...
Fondue Recipe". Food & Wine. Retrieved 4 November 2021. Willett-Wei, Megan; McDowell, Erin (3 November 2021). "The most famous local sandwich from every...
(Dalkey Archive, 2017). Cara de pan (2018). Among the Hedges, trans. MeganMcDowell (Open Letter, 2021). Un amor (2020). Trans. Katie Whittemore (Open Letter...
Translation Prize. In 2017, Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (translated by MeganMcDowell) was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, as was Frankenstein...
published in English by Yale University Press in 2013 in a translation by MeganMcDowell. It is a novel based on a true story of a female guerilla captured by...
Harlem Shuffle Jocelyn Nicole Johnson My Monticello Mariana Enríquez MeganMcDowell (tr.) The Dangers of Smoking in Bed Pajtim Statovci David Hackston (tr...
From Uncommon Stars Tor Books Finalist Mariana Enríquez, trans. by MeganMcDowell The Dangers of Smoking in Bed Hogarth Press Finalist Marissa Levien...
Are Given for 22 Works: Buckley and Galbraith Hosts; Choices Made by Juries", Edwin McDowell, The New York Times, May 1, 1981, p. C24 Official website...
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