As a fiction writer, she works almost exclusively in Spanish. Her book-length works are: Catastrofes naturales (Editorial Sudamericana, 1997) and Flores de un solo día (Seix Barral, 2003), the latter a finalist for the Romulos Gallegos Prize. Stahl’s fiction has appeared in anthologies and journals in Latin America, Europe, Japan, and the USA. She is currently completing a novel based in Buenos Aires, in the southern neighborhoods where historically an Asian immigrant enclave took root and later other immigrants and regional migrations passed through. In the novel three individuals of differing generations and national cultural origins converge in Argentina leading to a story that pits historical undercurrents against an individual wish to recreate oneself and start anew.

Also an active translator, Stahl has worked on film projects (for writers like Ricardo Piglia and directors like Hector Babenco and Lucrecia Martel) and on book-length fiction and cultural studies. Stahl has taught Creative Writing & Literary Analysis at New York University’s study abroad program in Buenos Aires since 2008. Currently she directs the NYU Buenos Aires program, which hosts over 300 students per year in Buenos Aires. Since 2015, she has served as John Maxwell Coetzee’s academic coordinator for seminars and colloquia he directs through Argentina’s Universidad Nacional de San Martin, for on-going comparative work on Literatures of the Southern Hemisphere connecting writers and translators between the countries and cultures of Australia/New Zealand, South America, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Anna will be a writer in residence in April 2019. This position is sponsored by the ARC Discovery Project “Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature”, a partnership between Western Sydney University and the University of Adelaide.

Select bibliography:

• Stahl, Anna Kazumi and Karin Lanzoni, ‘The Genogram Game & Croppings’, The Asian American Literary Review, vol. 4, issue 2, 2013, pp. 49-105.
• Stahl, Anna Kazumi, ‘De Hombres, Ciervos y Cangrejos’ (‘Of Men, Deer, and Crabs’), AND Cultura, L Nación, 26 January 2008.
• Stahl, Anna Kazumi, ‘Natural Disasters’, from A Whistler in the Nightworld: Short Fiction from the Latin Americas, edited by Thomas Colchie, New York: Plume, 2002, pp. 58-84.
• Stahl, Anna Kazumi, Catástrofes Naturales (Toshi’s Tango Dream),  Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 1997.

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In early September, 2018, members of the Other Worlds team (Alexis Wright, Anthony Uhlmann, Ben Etherington), as well as Writing & Society Research Centre technician Ben Denham, and cameraman Andre Sawenko, travelled to Burketown and Doomadgee in the Carpentaria area of Queensland. There they captured film and audio recordings of Clarence in discussion with Alexis Wright for the ABC RAdio National program AWAYE! The stories Clarence told were extraordinary, at times extremely confronting, at times inspiring.

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As a cultural journalist, she contributes to the feuilleton of the most popular newspaper in Argentina. At the University of Buenos Aires she is a lecturer on Translation Theory. She has translated Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Robert Musil and J. M. Coetzee, among others. Her second novel, All my Goodbyes (Cada despedida), has just been published by Giramondo in Sydney, inaugurating the series “Southern Latitudes”.

Mariana will be a writer in residence in August to September 2018. This position is sponsored by the ARC Discovery Project “Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature”, a partnership between Western Sydney University and the University of Adelaide.

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She was chosen as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under the age of 35 by Granta and is on the Bogota39-2017 list. Her stories in Spanish have won numerous awards, including the prestigious Juan Rulfo Story Prize, and in English have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and elsewhere. Her work has been translated into 20 languages. Originally from Buenos Aires, she lives in Berlin.

Samanta will be a short-term writer-in-residence on the Other Worlds project when she travels to Adelaide for Writers’ Week and visits The University of Adelaide to participate in some events.

A link to one of Samanta Schweblin’s short stories translated into English, ‘Preserves – Words without Borders’ 

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In his readings and conversations with writers and academics in Australia, visiting writer Mairal focused on the intersection of creative subjects and life, from literary prizes to bus accidents and fatherhood, and engaged with the dark corners of the creative mind to present his own writing as a method of survival.

Pedro Mairal is an Argentinian novelist, travel writer, poet, screenwriter and television presenter whose work has been translated and published across five continents. He has authored a collection of short fiction, three volumes of poetry, a collection of newspaper columns and five novels, including El gran surubi, which is composed entirely of sonnets, and The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra, which was named a 2013 book of the year by The New Republic, along with work by Julian Barnes and George Saunders. In 2007, Bogata39 named him one of the finest Latin American writers of his generation. He is a writer whose work, in the words of American art editor Jed Perl, “moves from the ordinary to the opulent and back again without skipping a beat.”

Mairal’s position as writer in residence and visiting research fellow was sponsored by the ARC Discovery Project “Other Worlds: Forms of World Literature”, a partnership between Western Sydney University and the University of Adelaide.

Copy of readings read at Adelaide event 17 October 2017

Short Story read in Sydney 20 October 2017

Images of Pedro Mairal in Australia

Pedro – River Man

Pedro with kangaroos

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