Delicates by Wendy Guerra, translated from Spanish by Nancy Naomi Carlson and Esperanza Hope Snyder and published at Seagull Books, has been longlisted for the 2024 National Award Translation in Poetry in the U.S..
Established in 1998, by American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), the NTAs are awarded annually in poetry and in prose to literary translators who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English by masterfully recreating the artistic force of a book of consummate quality.
The shortlists for the NTA will be announced on October 10th, and the winners will be announced on October 26th at an Awards Ceremony as part of ALTA’s annual conference, ALTA47: Voices in Translation, in Milwaukee, WI.
Wendy Guerra's work has been published in 23 languages. She has given lectures at universities in Mexico, Argentina and the United States, and contributed to several magazines and reviews worldwide. In 2010 was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. She has been included in compilations of contemporary literature, Latin American or women's literature published by various institutions and publishers around the world.
Delicates is a poetry anthology that includes her Spanish book Ropa interior and some of her poems of Cabeza rapada.