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About Carolina Orloff

 

Carolina Orloff is an Argentinian publisher and translator. She was born in Buenos Aires and studied at York University and Leeds University. In 2010 she completed her PhD in Latin American Literature at the University of Edinburgh, later becoming her postdoctoral fellow at the same institution.

She is the co-founder of Edinburgh-based publishing house Charco Press, where she co-translated three books by Ariana Harwicz and one by Jorge Consiglio. She is also an expert on the work of Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar. She wrote a paper called The Representation of the Political in Selected Writings of Julio Cortázar and translated it into Spanish. She even translated entire short stories by Virginia Woolf into Spanish with Micaela Ortelli.