Jethro Soutar

Jethro Soutar is a translator of Spanish and Portuguese. He is the general editor of Dedalus Africa list and has translated The Ultimate Tragedy by Abdulai Sila and The Madwoman of Serrano by Dina Salustio for Dedalus Africa.

His translation of By Night The Mountain Burns, by Equatorial Guinean author Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, was shortlisted for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He has translated Argentinian and Brazilian crime fiction, and the Brazilian graphic novel Picture a Favela by André Diniz.

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