Carolina Orloff

03.04.26
  / 29.04.26
Originally from Buenos Aires and based in Edinburgh for a few decades now, Carolina Orloff is an author, editor, translator and researcher in Latin American literature, who has published extensively on Julio Cortázar as well as on literature, cinema, politics and translation theory. In 2016, after obtaining her PhD from the University of Edinburgh and working in the academic sector, Carolina founded Charco Press where she acts as publishing director. Among many works, she has translated Virginia Woolf’s short stories into Spanish and has co-translated Ariana Harwicz’s ”Die, My Love”, which was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2018. In its short life, Charco Press has received several awards and nominations, including Creative Edinburgh Start-Up of the Year (2018), the British Book Award – Scottish Regional Prize (2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026), and five nominations  to the Booker International Prize. In 2018, Carolina herself was named ‘Emerging Publisher of the Year’ by the Saltire Society, and in 2023, she was asked to be part of the jury for the prestigious Alfaguara Prize for Literature in Spanish. She has edited several books, including the ground-breaking collection of essays ”La Lucha: Latin American Feminism Today ”(winner of an English PEN award, 2025), and has published the work of non-fiction ”The Representation of the Political in the Novels of Julio Cortázar” (2013). For several years, she has been working on a book of fiction which, thanks to the Residencia Finestres, she could finally reconnect with. It will be her debut novel.

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Carolina Orloff

03.04.26
  / 29.04.26
Originally from Buenos Aires and based in Edinburgh for a few decades now, Carolina Orloff is an author, editor, translator and researcher in Latin American literature, who has published extensively on Julio Cortázar as well as on literature, cinema, politics and translation theory. In 2016, after obtaining her PhD from the University of Edinburgh and working in the academic sector, Carolina founded Charco Press where she acts as publishing director. Among many works, she has translated Virginia Woolf’s short stories into Spanish and has co-translated Ariana Harwicz’s ”Die, My Love”, which was longlisted for the Booker International Prize in 2018. In its short life, Charco Press has received several awards and nominations, including Creative Edinburgh Start-Up of the Year (2018), the British Book Award – Scottish Regional Prize (2019, 2020, 2021 and 2026), and five nominations  to the Booker International Prize. In 2018, Carolina herself was named ‘Emerging Publisher of the Year’ by the Saltire Society, and in 2023, she was asked to be part of the jury for the prestigious Alfaguara Prize for Literature in Spanish. She has edited several books, including the ground-breaking collection of essays ”La Lucha: Latin American Feminism Today ”(winner of an English PEN award, 2025), and has published the work of non-fiction ”The Representation of the Political in the Novels of Julio Cortázar” (2013). For several years, she has been working on a book of fiction which, thanks to the Residencia Finestres, she could finally reconnect with. It will be her debut novel.

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