FOUND IN TRANSLATION

the late Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist, once called translation the closest form of reading. “I think ultimately that’s what it was for me,” begins Olivia Lott, a translator, doctoral candidate,. “It was this opportunity to see something so deep and engage with it on a different level,” she says. But there’s a Colombian connection beyond Lott’s admiration of Gabo. is the first poetry collection by a Colombian woman to be translated into English.