Rexina Vega teaches Spanish at the University of Vigo, where she specializes in literary self-translation and the work of the Galician writer Álvaro Cunqueiro. She is the author of three novels in Galician: Shoal (2007), a look at the troubled years of Franco’s dictatorship through the prism of the industrial, Atlantic city of Vigo, which won the prestigious Xerais Prize for novels; Dark Butterfly (2012), a study of madness, how this leads to division and exclusion, and the impotence of psychiatry to combat it; and No One Sleeps (2017), an examination of the dark side of human relationships, sex and the body as a prison, a sentence. Rexina Vega is known for her poetic style and narrative boldness. She was one of five translators to translate Georges Perec’s novel A Void into Spanish as El secuestro, which received the Stendhal Translation Prize and was shortlisted for the National Translation Award.

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