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Bill Johnston
Bill Johnston is the translator of all Magdalena Tulli’s books in English. He has also translated numerous works of poetry and prose by other writers; his translation of Wiesław Myśliwski’s Stone Upon Stone (Archipelago Books) won the PEN Translation Prize and the Best Translated Book Award in 2012. His most recent translation is Tomasz Różycki’s mock-epic poem Twelve Stations (Zephyr Books, 2015). He teaches at Indiana University.

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March 2013

Celan Reads Japanese

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March 2013

There are some who claim that ‘good’ literature is actually untranslatable.  Before I could read German, I found this...

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November 2013

The Past is a Foreign Country

Natasha Hoare

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November 2013

‘The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.’ The immortal first line to L. P. Hartley’s...

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May 2017

The Pilgrims

Rachel Aydt

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May 2017

ST. JOAN The great actress Renée Jeanne Falconetti stands trial for heresy, a woeful story told with her eyes...

 

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