Jessica Sequeira is the author of A Furious Oyster (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), the collection of stories Rhombus and Oval (What Books), the collection of essays Other Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age (Zero), and her most recent book A Luminous History of the Palm (Sublunary Editions). Jessica has translated poetry and prose by Latin American authors, both contemporaries as well as figures such as Winétt de Rokha, Sara Gallardo, and Teresa Wilms Montt. Most recently she translated a biography of the Chilean artist Delia del Carril Iraeta. Jessica is associate editor of Sublunary editions and is currently doing a PhD at the Centre of Latin American Studies, in Cambridge, on literary exchanges between Latin America and India.
Mentioned in this episode:
- Osvaldo Lamborghini and His Work An essay by author Cesar Aira
- Writing to the Dead: On Teresa Wilms Montt’s In the Stillness of Marble Essay by Jessica Sequeira
Books:
Music:
Harry Beckett
Los Tetas
Miss Garrison
Sound engineer: Oscar Perez.
Literary South 