Valerie Miles

Valerie Miles
Born	1963 New York
Occupation	Editor
Nationality	American

Valerie Miles (New York, 1963) is a publisher, writer, translator and the co–founder of Granta en español.

Life

She grew up in Pennsylvania; she has spent her professional life based between Madrid and Barcelona. She has been publishing director at Emecé Editores (Planeta) and at Alfaguara, as well as founding publisher of Duomo Ediciones (an imprint of Mauri Spagnol).^[1] She is known for promoting Spanish and Latin American literature and their translation in the English speaking world, at the same time as bringing American and British authors to Spain and Latin America for the first time.

She is currently the co-director of Granta en español and The New York Review of Books in its Spanish translation. She is also the co-curator of the Roberto Bolaño exhibit^[2] at the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona. In addition, she is a professor in the post-graduate program for literary translation at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.^[3]

In 2013, she was voted one of the "Most Influential Professionals in Publishing" by the Buenos Aires Book Fair.^[4]

Biography

Publishing

In 2008, she was named publishing director of Duomo Ediciones, an imprint of the Italian group Mauri Spagnol (Garzanti, Guanda, Salani, Longanesi), where she published both the work of young Spanish-language authors such as Carlos Yushimito, Sebastià Jovani and Rodrigo Hasbún and the work of English-language writers in Spain and Latin America, such as David Mitchell, Azar Nafisi, Nicholson Baker, Judith Thurman, Aleksandar Hemon, Jayne Anne Phillips, John Gray and William Boyd. During her time at Duomo, she also published co-editions of books from the New York Review of Books collection of contemporary classics.

Granta

Valerie Miles founded Granta en español in 2003 together with Aurelio Major.^[5] The magazine has published thirteen issues so far, including the highly acclaimed selection of The Best of Young Spanish-language Novelists.^[6] The latest issue "Granta Mex" (October 2012) included two unpublished texts by Roberto Bolaño: "Autobiografía" and "Manifiesto infrarrealista. Las fracturas de la realidad".^[7] In April 2014, it was announced that the publisher Galaxia Gutenberg will now undertake the publications of the magazine.^[8]

Publications

As a journalist, she has written for The Paris Review, Harper´s, Granta, La Vanguardia, La Nación and the cultural supplement, ABCD.^[9]

She has translated into English the work of authors such as Enrique Vila-Matas, Edmundo Paz Soldán, Lucía Puenzo and Fernando Aramburu for publishing houses such as New Directions and Granta.^[10]

In 2014 she published A Thousand Forests in One Acorn, an anthology for which 28 writer Spanish-language writers chose a selection of their own work as representative, with comments by the authors and discussion of their influences.^[11] Participants include Mario Vargas Llosa, Javier Marías, and Carlos Fuentes.^[12]

Bibliography

• A Thousand Forests in One Acorn (Rochester: Open Letter, 2014; ISBN 978-1-934824-91-7); Spanish edition, Mil bosques en una bellota, Duomo, Barcelona, 2012 ISBN 9788492723928

References

External links

• NPR Radio Talks to Valerie Miles about Granta 10