Bad Habit’s Alana S. Portero on Love, Language and Trans Survival (EXCLUSIVE)

Alana S. Portero (Image: Antonio Santana)

Alana S. Portero is a highly acclaimed Spanish writer, poet, playwright and theatre director. She co-founded the theatre company STRIGA, and is a passionate advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, giving a platform to the experiences of trans women.

Bad Habit, Portero’s debut novel, is a powerfully moving coming-of-age novel following the narrator, a young trans woman, in 1980’s Madrid. It has enjoyed phenomenal success, translated into multiple languages across the world. It has been tenderly translated into English by Mara Faye Lethem.

To celebrate the fifth Anniversary of Romancero Books, a cultural platform promoting Spanish literature in the UK and its translation to English, Attitude was invited to the paperback edition launch of Bad Habit at Second Home, an event that was organised in collaboration with

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