Julia Kornberg Julia Kornberg is a writer from Buenos Aires living in New York. Her first novel, Atomizado Berlín, was published in Argentina by Club Hem and is forthcoming in Mexico by Scaraboquio. 

The Translation Trap | Latin American Literature and the International Market

Julia Kornberg

The unnamed narrator of Valeria Luiselli’s 2011 novel Faces in the Crowd is a young Mexican woman living in Brooklyn and working, as many F-1 literary types do, at a small translation press. She spends half of the week visiting libraries around the city, carrying huge backpacks full of books while she searches for Spanish-language writers worth translating or reissuing. The rest of her time is spent in the press’s...