A Zero-Sum Game

Eduardo Rabasa studied political science at Mexico’s National University (UNAM), where he graduated with a thesis on the concept of power in the work of George Orwell. He writes a weekly column for the national newspaper Milenio, and has translated books of authors like Morris Berman, George Orwell and Somerset Maugham. He is the author of La suma de los ceros, published in Mexico by sur+, which will be published in Spain by Pepitas de calabaza, in Argentina by Godot Ediciones, in France by Editions Piranha, and in the US by Deep Vellum. He was selected among the best 20 young Mexican contemporary authors in the project Mexico20. In 2002, he was one of the founding members of Editorial Sexto Piso, where he has worked as an editor since.

Christina MacSweeney is a literary translator specializing in Latin American fiction. Her translations of Valeria Luiselli’s works were published by Granta and Coffee House Press in 2012 and 2013 and 2015 respectively; her translation of Luiselli'sFaces in the Crowd was a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award, 2015. Her work has also appeared on a variety of platforms and in the anthology of Best Young Mexican Writers,Mexico20, compiled by the Hay Festival. Her translations of Daniel Saldana Paris’sAmong Strange Victims and Eduardo Rabasa’s A Zero-Sum Game are forthcoming from Coffee House Press and Deep Vellum respectively in 2016.