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Havana-born Jorge Ferrer is a writer, editor, and award-winning translator. Among the authors he has translated into Spanish are Alexandr Herzen, Ivan Bunin, Svetlana Alexievich, Vasily Grossman, Guzel Yakhina, and Vasily Rozanov. In 2012 he received the Boris Yeltsin Foundation’s “Russian Literature in Spain” prize. He lives in Barcelona.