Lunatics, Lovers and Poets ― Twelve Stories After Cervantes and Shakespeare

Daniel Hahn is an award-winning writer, editor and translator, with forty-something books to his name. Recent titles include the newOxford Companion to Children’s Literature and a translation of A General Theory of Oblivion (by Angolan novelist Jose Eduardo Agualusa). He is on the board of a number of organisations that work with literature, reading and free speech, and is currently chair of the Society of Authors.

Margarita Valencia (Bogota, 1958) has devoted most of her professional life to books, as
editor, teacher, literary critic, translator. Her publishing projects have included the Bogota publishing house Carlos Valencia Editores, literary collections edited for Grupo Editorial Norma, and Libro al viento, a publishing project aimed at closing the gap between the reader and the book. She has been a staff writer for several magazines (El Malpensante, Cambio, Arcadia, Guion), and the newspaper La Prensa, and her texts have been published in various anthologies. She conceived and directs the program in Book Studies in the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, and co-directs Los libros, a program that airs on National Public Radio.

Yuri Herrera: Born in Actopan, Mexico, in 1970, Yuri Herrera's Signs Preceding the End of the World is being published in a number of languages, as isThe Transmigration of Bodies, which is forthcoming in English from And Other Stories in 2016. He teaches at the University of Tulane, in New Orleans.