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Martin Aitken
Martin Aitken (born 1961) is an acclaimed translator of Danish literature, most recently of Helle Helle’s This Should Be Written in the Present Tense (Harvill Secker). Forthcoming titles include novels by Kim Leine, Martin Kongstad, Simon Pasternak, Josefine Klougart and Peter Høeg.

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poetry

May 2015

Europe

Kirill Medvedev

TR. Keith Gessen

poetry

May 2015

I’m riding the bus with a group of athletes from some provincial town they’re going to a competition in...

fiction

April 2012

They Told the Story from the Lighthouse

Chimene Suleyman

fiction

April 2012

I found Margate watching the sea. And I walked the streets thinking they had left it sometime in the...

feature

November 2014

Every Night is Like a Disco: Iraq 2003

Paul Currion

feature

November 2014

That day at Kassim’s, there was no music. There was almost no sound at all, not even the echoes...

 

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