Winner of the 2026 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award

Michelle's translation of The Cracks We Bear by Chilean author Catalina Infante has won the 2026 Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award. Michelle accepted the award during a ceremony at the American Literary Translators Association annual conference in Portland, Oregon. The Spain-USA Foundation Translation Award (SUFTA) recognizes translations into English of literary prose works written originally by authors of Spanish (Spain) nationality. Inaugurated in 2022, this $5,000 award accepts translations from original texts in Spanish, Catalan, Basque, or Galician.

From the judges:

"...The Cracks We Bear offers a complex portrait of pregnancy and motherhood. In crystalline vignettes, the narrator reflects on her tumultuous relationship with her late mother, musing on her communist mother’s exile in Cuba and France, and her own fraught early months of motherhood. Mirabella’s English rendering is outstanding for its effortless beauty and elegance, accompanied by a passionate and insightful afterword that illuminates how a translator’s lived experience can enrich her translation.”