Translation as a Journey: Jessica Sequeira on Vlady Kociancich’s <em>The Eighth Wonder</em>

Translation as a Journey: Jessica Sequeira on Vlady Kociancich’s The Eighth Wonder

“Translation is a mutation of language, but not direct replication; something happens in the process that shifts the direction of the ideas.”

By Jessica Sequeira | August 26, 2026

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Jessica Sequeira on Celebrating the Possibilities of New Readings

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Jessica Sequeira on Transforming Emotion into Music and Words

By Jessica Sequeira | July 20, 2022

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