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Ousman Umar

Ousman Umar was born in Ghana and immigrated to Europe when he was seventeen. In 2012 he founded NASCO Feeding Minds, an NGO dedicated to the principle that the most effective way to prevent migrants from leaving Ghana for Europe is to provide top-notch opportunities for education and advancement in Ghana. North to Paradise was originally published by Penguin Random House Spain in 2019. Ousman lives in Barcelona.

Kevin Gerry Dunn is a Spanish-English translator whose recent projects include Countersexual Manifesto, by Paul B. Preciado, and Easy Reading, by Cristina Morales (for which he received a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant and an English PEN Award), as well as works by Daniela Tarazona, Cristian Perfumo, and Kike Arnal. He also heads the FTrMP Project, an effort to make Spanish translations of vital migration paperwork available for free online.

This biography was last updated on 03/01/2022.

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