Anna Pazos

Killing the Nerve

Translation by Laura McGloughlin and Charlotte Coombe

CATALONIA

ISBN: 978-1-0686934-6-5

In this tour de force of auto-journalism, Anna Pazos explores the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood for the global nomad generation. We are taken on a journey from the ‘Mediterranean mediocrity’ of bourgeois Barcelona life, through Anna’s unstructured Erasmus days in Thessaloniki, her first steps in journalism in Jerusalem, her sail across the Atlantic with an unsuitable lover, and to post-MeToo, pre-pandemic New York. In 2021, back in Barcelona, she turns her analytical attention on her family, on post-2017 Catalan society, and on her place within it.

This stunning debut was longlisted for the Premi Finestres 2023 and voted best Catalan Book of the Year by El Pais.

AUTHOR

ANNA PAZOS is a writer and documentary filmmaker. She has produced several short documentaries and non-fiction podcasts and has written columns and reports for El País, La Vanguardia, Jacobin and Le Monde Diplomatique. Between 2014 and 2015 she lived in Jerusalem, where she wrote for media outlets such as Ha’aretz and The Jerusalem Post. In 2017 she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study a postgraduate degree at NYU, where she also worked as a fact-checker at the New York Times Syndicate and as an editor and producer at the BBC.

 

TRANSLATORS

CHARLOTTE COOMBE is a British translator working from Spanish, French and Catalan into English.  She was shortlisted for the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute Translation Prize 2023 and  won the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award 2022.  She has translated books by authors including Rosa Ribas, Frédéric Laffont, Vincent Doumeizel. Marvel Moreno and Margarita García Robayo.

LAURA MCGLOUGHLIN completed a Masters in literary translation at the University of East Anglia and translates from Catalan and Spanish.  .  Among others, she has translated work by Flavia Company, Joan Brossa, Andrea

Mayo and Empar Moliner, and her work has appeared in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Asymptote and Metamorphoses.

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