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Katy Derbyshire
Katy Derbyshire is a London-born translator who lives in Berlin. She translates contemporary German writers including Clemens Meyer, Inka Parei, Helene Hegemann, Simon Urban and Christa Wolf. Katy co-hosts Berlin’s monthly translation lab and runs a literary cabaret dedicated to women of the past, The Dead Ladies Show. She has led translation workshops in Berlin, Leipzig, New Delhi, New York and Norwich.

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April 2013

The Story I'm Thinking Of

Jonathan Gibbs

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April 2013

There were seven of us sat around the table. Seven grown adults, sat around the table. It was late. We...

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January 2014

Afterword: The Death of the Translator

George Szirtes

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January 2014

1. The translator meets himself emerging from his lover’s bedroom. So much for fidelity, he thinks. 2. Je est...

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October 2012

Crown of Thorns Starfish

Caspar Henderson

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October 2012

If you look into infinity what do you see? Your backside!  –Tristan Tzara   The drug-addict, drunk, wife-shooter and...

 

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