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Jethro Soutar

Jethro Soutar is a writer and translator of Spanish and Portuguese. He is co-editor of The Football Crónicas, a collection of translated short-form writing from Latin America, and a co-founder of Ragpicker Press. His recent translations include Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel’s Arde el monte de noche (By Night the Mountain Burns) and Frei Beto’s Hotel Brasil, published in English under the same title.

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Saving Mesopotamia

Alexandra Lucas Coelho

‘What they are excavating is the birth of a civilisation.’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Laparotomy

Alexandra Lucas Coelho

‘At forty, I think the world leads to the body. Besides, laid out on a stretcher, you are your only home’ .

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The Ambivalent

Paulo Scott

‘Someone once said to him: I never saw a campaign writer with such a vocation for destruction.’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Three Football Books

Clara Becker, Stuart Evers & Jethro Soutar

Three Granta contributors introduce their favourite books about football.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

How We Got Mother Back

Valério Romão

‘With the passing of time we got used to hearing our brother being our mother’

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Rat Fever

Javier Arancibia Contreras

‘Everything around me, myself included, is warm and sticky.’

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Still Life

Vinicius Jatobá

‘You see the house and its time, the house and the house alone, though your secrets, your fears and silences still exist there, locked away behind the denseness of the closed doors’

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