Ricardo Piglia is Professor of Latin American Literature at Princeton University and is the author, among other works, of Respiración artificial (1980) La ciudad ausente (1992) and Critica y ficción (1986) — a collection of interviews and essays on key Argentine writers such as Borges, Arit and Sarmiento.
Amanda Hopkinson is a Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff University Her previous translations include José Saramago's Voyage to Portugal and Paul Coelho's The Devil and Miss Prym.