6/28/2023 0 Comments Little eyes by samanta schweblin![]() When her twin left for Chicago, she followed. ![]() ![]() At first, she wanted to stand out from her sibling, but then she didn’t want to be apart from her. McDowell, 44, grew up in Kentucky, in the American Midwest, alongside her twin sister. The fact that the only other Argentine writer to win the award was Julio Cortázar, for his popular book Hopscotch - and that Megan has a hopscotch tattooed on her arm - is the kind of detail that seems to suggest that her bright future was a foretold story. Her translation of Seven Empty Houses won Samanta Schweblin the prestigious National Book Award in 2022. Neither the waitress nor the sailors have the remotest idea that McDowell is a world star in the field. She’s at Bar Kentucky, an American-style, baroque bar in Barcelona, Spain, which appears frozen in the year 1951. The waitress has just asked her to translate what the pair of tipsy New Zealand sailors at the back of the bar are saying. Sitting on a stool that was once bolted to the ground to prevent marines passing through town from starting the kind of fights that end badly, Megan McDowell has a task to perform. ![]() Megan McDowell at Kentucky bar in Barcelona. ![]()
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