Sara Santana López’s (Madrid, Spain, 1994) escribas modernas is a long term project of collective translation. An English version of the novel Lectura Fácil is progressively built through the bilingual voices of various participants. It pursues a slow pirating action, from the original edited novel towards a pirate free multi-authored publication. The translators are women whose mother tongue is Spanish and who have different experiences using English, translating themselves in their day-to-day lives. A vertical institution such as translation, based on expertise and transparency, is inhabited from an amateur, subjective and unofficial position. This pirating instead of facilitating a mass distribution of the content, is built slowly and locally, through personal encounters and conversations, resulting in a polyphonic elaboration and publishing process.