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Valerie Miles was an employee for whom from 2003 to 2006?
Valerie Miles Valerie Miles ( New York , 1963 ) is a publisher , writer , translator and the co–founder of Granta en español . She is known for promoting Spanish and Latin American literature and their translation in the English speaking world , at the same time as bringing American and British authors to Spain and Latin America for the first time , working with main publishing houses on the sector . She is currently the co-director of Granta en español and The New York Review of Books in its Spanish translation . On 2012 she co-curated a Roberto Bolaño exhibit at the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona . In addition , she is a professor in the post-graduate program for literary translation at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona . Biography . Born in New York , she grew up in Pennsylvania ; before moving to Spain in 1990 , where she began writing about British and American literature in La Vanguardia newspaper in 1994 . Since then , Miles has published articles , interviews and reviews , also on Spanish language literature for ABC , La Nación , Reforma and El País . Publishing . In 1999 , she started working as a publishing editor for Debolsillo , part of Random House Spain . On May 2001 she became publishing director at Emecé Editores ( Planeta ) , where she published or promoted translations to Spanish of writers like John Cheever , Richard Yates , Yasunari Kawabata , Silvina Ocampo , Edgardo Cozarinsky , Lydia Davis , Monica Ali and Eliot Weinberger , among others . On 2006 she moved to Alfaguara , where she published John Banville , Joyce Carol Oates , Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo , James Lasdun and Gary Shteyngart . Between 2008 and 2012 , she was named publishing director of Duomo Ediciones , an imprint of the Italian group Mauri Spagnol , where she published both the work of young Spanish-language authors such as Carlos Yushimito , Sebastià Jovani and Rodrigo Hasbún and the work of English-language writers in Spain and Latin America , such as David Mitchell , Azar Nafisi , Nicholson Baker , Aleksandar Hemon , Jayne Anne Phillips , John Gray and William Boyd . She also published co-editions Spanish translations of books from the New York Review of Books collection of contemporary classics . In 2013 , she was voted one of the Most Influential Professionals in Publishing by the Buenos Aires Book Fair . Granta . Valerie Miles founded Granta en español in 2003 together with Aurelio Major . Project has been sponsored by Emecé , Alfaguara , Duomo and now by Galaxia Gutenberg in Barcelona , Spain . The magazine has published nineteen issues so far , including the highly acclaimed selection of The Best of Young Spanish-language Novelists , In April 2014 , it was announced that the publisher Galaxia Gutenberg would undertake the publications of the magazine . Publications . As a writer In 2014 she published A Thousand Forests in One Acorn , an anthology for which 28 writer Spanish-language writers chose a selection of their own work as representative , with comments by the authors and discussion of their influences . Participants include Mario Vargas Llosa , Javier Marías , Juan Goytisolo , Ana María Matute and Carlos Fuentes . Book was later translated to Romanian . As a journalist , she has written articles and book reviews for The New York Times , The Paris Review , Harper´s , Granta , La Vanguardia , La Nación and the cultural supplement , ABCD . As a translator , she has translated into English the work of authors such as Enrique Vila-Matas , Edmundo Paz Soldán , Lucía Puenzo and Fernando Aramburu for publishing houses such as New Directions and Granta . Bibliography . - A Thousand Forests in One Acorn ( Rochester : Open Letter , 2014 ; ) ; Spanish edition , Mil bosques en una bellota , Duomo , Barcelona , 2012 External links . - NPR Radio Talks to Valerie Miles about Granta 10