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Annelise Finegan Wasmoen
Annelise Finegan Wasmoen is pursuing a Ph.D in Comparative Literature at Washington University in St. Louis. Her translations from Chinese include short stories by Jiang Yun, Lu Min, and Jia Pingwa. Her first book-length translation, Can Xue's The Last Lover (Yale University Press) was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the National Translation Award and won the Best Translated Book Award 2015.

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February 2016

'Look at me, I said to the glass in a whisper, a breath.'

Alice Hattrick

Art

February 2016

Listen to her. She is telling you about her adolescence. She is telling you about one particular ‘bender’ that...

fiction

September 2016

Colonel Lágrimas

Carlos Fonseca

TR. Megan McDowell

fiction

September 2016

The colonel must be looked at from up close. We have to approach him, get near enough to be...

feature

March 2013

Celan Reads Japanese

Yoko Tawada

TR. Susan Bernofsky

feature

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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