What Remains by Brais Lamela, translated by Jacob Rogers

A deeply personal debut novel that blends fiction, memoir, essay, and archival writing to explore the complexity of migration, the history of forced resettlement, and the weight of the colonial past.

Shifting between the intimate present and the archival past, New York City and the remote mountains of Negueira de Muñiz, Galician writer Brais Lamela's award-winning debut novel follows a young scholar's journey into the forgotten history of the Franco regime, uncovering both the past and the still-present afterlife of a forced resettlement project in the Galician countryside of the 1960s.

About the translator:

Jacob Rogers is a translator of Galician and Spanish literature. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, and has curated and co-edited features on Galician-language prose and poetry for Asymptote, Words Without Borders, and The Spanish Riveter. He has translated books by Manuel Rivas, Berta Dávila, Brais Lamela, and Carlos Casares, with translations forthcoming from Veliz Books, Picador, Archipelago Books, Knopf, Bloomsbury, and World Poetry Books. In 2026, he won an O'Henry Prize for his translation of a story by Ismael Ramos.

The conversation will be moderated by Ena Selimović.

Ena Selimović is a writer, translator, and editor. She co-founded Turkoslavia, a translation collective and journal. Her work has appeared in Words Without Borders, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, Asymptote, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in comparative literature and has been awarded fellowships from the American Literary Translators Association, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her most recent translation is Maša Kolanović’s Underground Barbie (Sandorf Passage, 2025).

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