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Fabio Morabito was born in Egypt to an Italian family. When he was fifteen, his family relocated from Milan to Mexico City, and he has written all his work in Spanish ever since. He has published five books of poetry, five short-story collections, one book of essays, and two novels, and has translated into Spanish the work of many great Italian poets of the twentieth century, including Eugenio Montale and Patrizia Cavalli. Morabito has been awarded numerous prizes, most recently the Xavier Villaurrutia Prize, Mexico's highest literary award, for Home Reading Service (Other Press, 2021). His short story collection Mothers and Dogs was published by Other Press in 2023. He lives in Mexico City. Curtis Bauer is a poet and translator of prose and poetry from Spanish. He is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and a Banff International Literary Translation Centre fellowship. His translation of Jeannette Clariond's Image of Absence won the International Latino Book Award for Best Nonfiction Book Translation from Spanish to English. Bauer teaches creative writing and comparative literature at Texas Tech University.
“The Shadow of the Mammoth is a masterful book, a singular collection focused on singularities. In a world intent on consuming mass quantities of media, Morábito has instead chosen to narrow his scope to one nail, one piccolo note, one patch of grass abutting an airport runway, and turn these small circumstances into worlds unto themselves.” —Elizabeth Gonzalez James, author of The Bullet Swallower “The stories in The Shadow of the Mammoth are beautiful and sardonic snapshots of humans at their extremes: their oddest, their loneliest, their most neurotic. Simple, precise, but endlessly inventive, Morábito delights and surprises at every turn.” —Ruben Reyes Jr. author of Archive of Unknown Universes and There is a Rio Grande in Heaven “The stories in Morábito’s The Shadow of the Mammoth are full of intrigue. Captivating and nuanced, they explore the intimate, the mundane, and the extraordinary with unique insight. Morábito’s sharp, crystalline, and voice-driven prose lands with undeniable authority. A great collection.” —Annell López, PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize Finalist and author of I’ll Give You a Reason Praise for Home Reading Service: “A satisfying fable, at once satiric and soulful, of a literary awakening in Mexico…this idiosyncratic performance will keep its audience rapt.” —Publishers Weekly “First, the tempting promise of an almost existential discovery, then bewilderment, subtle humor, and then everything in this story that seemed small and simple strikes back with extraordinary resonance. What a pleasure it always is to read Morábito.” —Samanta Schweblin, author of Fever Dream and Mouthful of Birds
