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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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June 2012

Spinning Days of Night

Susana Medina

fiction

June 2012

Day 1 in the Season before Chaos   These were the days before the glitch. The weather was acutely...

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March 2013

Celan Reads Japanese

Yoko Tawada

TR. Susan Bernofsky

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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...

fiction

March 2017

A Table is a Table

Peter Bichsel

TR. Lydia Davis

fiction

March 2017

I want to tell a story about an old man, a man who no longer says a word, has...

 

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