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Jospeh Zarate received the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Award in 2018 and the Ortega y Gasset Prize in 2016. He has served as deputy editor of the magazines Etiqueta Negra and Etiqueta Verde and was awarded a 2018 Ochberg Fellowship by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma of the School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York. Wars of the Interior was named one of the best books of 2018 by the New York Times in Spanish, Forbes Mexico and by Deutsche Welle. Annie McDermott's translations from Spanish and Portuguese include Dead Girls by Selva Almada, Empty Words by Mario Levrero, Feebleminded by Ariana Harwicz (with Carolina Orloff) and City of Ulysses by Teolinda Gersao (with Jethro Soutar). She has previously lived in Mexico and Brazil, and is now based in London.
Masterful storytelling. Peru's environmental conflicts are rooted in different concepts of development and different understandings of people's relationship with the land. Joseph Zárate explores these complexities through the lives of individuals who are forced to face these conflicts with the courage - and the contradictions - of their convictions -- Barbara Fraser, Editor * EarthBeat * Harrowing stories, beautifully told. Surely a future classic of non-fiction, a masterclass of reportage. Compelling characters facing impossible challenges whose outcome has wide-reaching consequences for all of us: Zárate brings the Amazon rainforest into your living room -- Ben Rawlence All too often, indigenous peoples endure the devastating consequences of resource extraction and development projects undertaken in their territories. And all too often, the stories of those communities-and of the people defending their traditional lands and ways of life from such projects-go untold. Zárate's captivating account of three resource development conflicts in Peru brings these struggles to life and puts a human face on the brave defenders taking a stand to protect their communities -- Lewis Gordon and Nick Hesterberg, Environmental Defender Law Center Zarate has chosen to use the language of war to frame these stories - but it is the absence of soldiers that defines them * TLS *
