Magdalena Edwards is a Chilean-born writer, translator, and actor. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Boston Review, The Millions, and El Mercurio. New Directions will publish her translation of Clarice Lispector’s novel The Chandelier in winter 2018. She is completing a manuscript titled “In the Name of the Body: Traveling with Elizabeth Bishop, Clarice Lispector, and Raúl Zurita.” Her one-woman show I Wanna Be Robert De Niro, which she wrote and produced with Zoom & Emar, premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in June 2017. Magdalena holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and a BA in Social Studies from Harvard.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Chile’s September 11: Marking the 40th Anniversary of Pinochet
This article was translated from Spanish by LARB Contributing Editor Magdalena Edwards. The original Spanish edition is included below. WE ...
Brazil: The Ground Shakes in the Country of Inequalities and Paradoxes
Rebellion in the streets, social media, and progress....
The Cosmopolitanism of the Poor
An essay from "Cosmopolitanisms," edited by Bruce Robbins and Paulo Lemos Horta...
Radio Hour: Clarice Lispector, Harry G. Frankfurt, and “Maybe Connect”
Acclaimed Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector, Harry G. Frankfurt's 'On Inequality,' and the similarities between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Elena Ferrante....
Killing Fiction Meets the Medea Impasse: On Rachel Cusk’s “Outline” and “Medea”
"Outline" marks the threshold between Cusk’s memoir "Aftermath," where she ruminates on her marriage and its dissolution, and her take on Euripides’s "Medea."...
“We Are a Bunch of Remittance Addicts”: An Interview with Imee Marcos, Governor of Ilocos Norte, Philippines
An interview with Imee Marcos, Governor of Ilocos Norte, Philippines....
A Conversation with Forrest Gander and Raúl Zurita About “Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America”
An exclusive interview with renowned poet and translator Forrest Gander and Raúl Zurita, recipient of the Chilean National Prize for Literature...
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The theme of male friendship is virgin territory for Rush, but the basic framework of the protagonist-couple and their idioverse is a Rushian staple....
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