Valerie Miles

Co-director of Granta and author of "A Thousand Forests in a Nutshell" (2012).

Valerie Miles was born in New York, although she was educated in Pennsylvania. She has been dedicated to editing and cultural journalism since she arrived in Spain more than twenty years ago. She was editorial director of Emecé, where she disseminated the work of John Cheever, Yasunari Kawabata, Silvina Ocampo, and Adolfo Bioy Casares, among others, and associate director of Alfaguara, where she published John Banville and Joyce Carol Oates. Since 2009, she has been editorial director of Duomo Ediciones, an imprint of the Italian group Mauri Spagnol, where she publishes the work of young authors such as Carlos Yushimito, Sebastià Jovani, and Rodrigo Hasbún, as well as writers like Azar Nafisi, Aleksandar Hemon, Jayne Anne Phillips, and John Gray, and also works on projects such as the co-edition of books from the New York Review of Books collection. In 2003, she founded the Spanish version of Granta magazine with Aurelio Major. Her articles and reports have been published in newspapers such as La Vanguardia and ABC, and in magazines such as The Paris Review, Harper's, and Granta. She is also a postgraduate professor of Literary Translation at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. She recently published the anthology Mil bosques en una bellota (2012), in which twenty-eight fundamental writers of Spanish literature present their favorite pages from their work; among them are Javier Marías, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ana María Matute, Carlos Fuentes, and Juan Goytisolo.

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