Jorge Velasco Mackenzie,’s Drums for a Lost Song (Tambores Para una Canción Perdida), translated by Rob Gunther was a winner of the Annual Loose Translations Award, co-sponsored by Hanging Loose and Queens College-CUNY. Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, in 1949, Mackenzie has been a university professor and a cultural journalist, as well as a writer. Tambores para una cancion perdida, first published in Ecuador in 1986, was awarded the Premio Nacional de Novela “Grupo de Guayaquil.” He is the author of numerous novels and short story collections; his many other literary prizes and accolades include an award from the Ecuadorean Casa de Cultura. His work has been translated into English, German, French, Italian and Portuguese. Rob Gunther is a fiction writer and translator. He received his MFA in creative writing and literary translation at CUNY Queens College in 2017. He lives with his wife and son in Astoria, Queens.
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