JS Tennant

““Mrs Gargantua is an entirely new approach to what has gone before, to a country that still holds mysteries ...””

— Jaime Abello, director of the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for Journalism

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JS Tennant is from North Yorkshire and has worked as a ghostwriter in Switzerland, a translator, for Dalkey Archive Press and PEN International. He was formerly poetry editor at The White Review and writes for the Guardian, Observer, Gatopardo, Irish Times, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman and other places. James has been shortlisted for the Fitzcarraldo Essay Prize and Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award. He is a Trustee of Modern Poetry in Translation. 

James is co-author (with Richard Hollis) of Cuba ’62: preludes to a world crisis. A second book about Cuba, Mrs Gargantua, is forthcoming from William Collins: it is the only English-language entry to have won the Michael Jacobs Award from the Gabriel García Márquez Foundation for Journalism.

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