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The Rebel Vocabulary of Ágota Kristóf

The Rebel Vocabulary of Ágota Kristóf

Helen Oyeyemi on Kristóf's memoir The Illiterate

By Helen Oyeyemi | May 4, 2023

How Annie Ernaux Captures the Spirit of Her Era Through Its Big-Box Stores

How Annie Ernaux Captures the Spirit of Her Era Through Its Big-Box Stores

In Conversation with Alison L. Strayer, the Translator of Look at the Lights, My Love

By Literary Hub | April 19, 2023

Bookworm in a Chrysalis: How Language Acquisition Nourishes a Love of Literature

Bookworm in a Chrysalis: How Language Acquisition Nourishes a Love of Literature

Natasha S. on Being a Multilingual Reader and Writer

By Natasha S. and Larissa Kyzer | April 19, 2023

A Passion for Living in the Present: <br>A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

A Passion for Living in the Present:
A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

A Piece of Global Literary History Available in English For the First Time

By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda | April 6, 2023

Spokesperson, Intellectual, and... More? On the New and Shifting Role of the Translator

Spokesperson, Intellectual, and... More? On the New and Shifting Role of the Translator

Lawrence Venuti Considers the “New Visibility” of Literary Translation

By Lawrence Venuti | April 5, 2023

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“Take only what is most important. Take the letters. / Take only what you can carry.”

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“German is the mirror that I managed to polish to an unusually high shine.”

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Two of the Best Translators in the Business Are Married (to Each Other) and Up For the Same Literary Award

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