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Jessica Powers
On Translating Your Own Novel *Back* Into Your Mother Tongue
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Jessica Powers
| May 16, 2025
How Catalyst and Iskanchi Press Are Bringing African Writers’ Work to a Wider Audience
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Books That Travel: A Report From the 2023 Nairobi International Book Fair
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