Matías Battistón
From 7 February to 7 March 2018

Born in 1986, Matías Battistón is a literary translator from Argentina. During the last five years he has translated over thirty books into Spanish by authors such as Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Oscar Wilde, John Cage, and Édouard Levé. He also acts as literary adviser for local publishing houses, selecting, proposing and editing books. He teaches literary translation as well, at the University of Belgrano. He was translator in residence at Trinity College of Dublin in 2016, and was given a grant by Übersetzerhaus Looren in 2017.