The Book of Mistaken Journeys - Clara Obligado

nClara Obligado was born in Buenos Aires. A political exile, she has lived in Spain since 1976. She has been awarded the Femenino Lumen prize and the Juan March Cencillo short novel prize. Some of her short story collections are Las otras vidas, El libro de los viajes equivocados, La muerte juega a los dados, and La biblioteca de agua and among her essay collections are Una casa lejos de casa. La escritura extranjera and Todo lo que crece. Naturaleza y escritura. nMolly Wagschal is a Ph.D. student at Brown University. She earned a BA in Comparative Literature & Society at Columbia University in 2022, and has since worked as an in-house translator and copywriter in Barcelona. Her academic interests include the poetry of exiled Republicans (specifically women) during and after the Spanish Civil War, as well as Catalan studies, literary translation, and the relationships between exile, translation, and gender.n