Robin Munby is a freelance translator from Liverpool, based in Madrid. His translations have appeared in the Glasgow Review of Books, Wasafiri, Subtropics,and the Cambridge Literary Review,and he has written for Reading in Translation and Asymptote. He is currently learning Asturian.
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I brought mum and dad an old quilt –
It’s nice, only it came out of the wash with funny splodges on it.
They can stick it on the sofa bed out at the allotment.
“We…