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Kate Briggs
Kate Briggs is a writer and translator. She teaches at the American University of Paris and the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam. 'Translation in the First Person' is an excerpt from This Little Art, a book in progress about the practice of translation.

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Translation in the First Person

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Issue No. 15

Kate Briggs

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Issue No. 15

IT IS 1 JUNE 2015 and I am standing outside no. 11 rue Servandoni in Paris’s sixth arrondissement. I have lived in this city,...

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Fugitive

James Byrne

poetry

March 2013

I trace the stacked voices of shouters how they immingle fraternally on first hearing with the vaporous nick of...

Interview

July 2015

Interview with Sarah Manguso

Catherine Carberry

Interview

July 2015

There’s a certain barometer of a writer’s achievement that urban readers know well: did this book cause me to...

poetry

January 2014

Letters from a Seducer

Hilda Hilst

TR. John Keene

poetry

January 2014

At her death in 2004, Brazilian author Hilda Hilst had received a number of her country’s important literary prizes...

 

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