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Esther Kinsky
Esther Kinsky is an award-winning writer and translator. She has published prose and poetry, essays and children’s books in German and English and translated a number of twentieth-century writers from Russian, Polish and English into German. Her most recent publication is, together with Martin Chalmers, Karadag Oktober 2013, a geopoetic exploration of Crimea. Her novel By the River is forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2017.

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By the River

fiction

January 2016

Esther Kinsky

TR. Martin Chalmers

fiction

January 2016

  For Aljoscha   ST LAWRENCE SEAWAY   Under my finger the map, this quiet pale blue of the cold estuary, the countless small...

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poetry

September 2014

Breath-Manifester & Drones

Ned Denny

poetry

September 2014

Breath-Manifester   Each bared morning is a swell time to die, Leaving the town’s ornate maze for the level...

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...

poetry

April 2014

Obsolescence

Joseph Mackertich

poetry

April 2014

A lot of people tell me my voice is similar to that of the actor Christopher Walken. I don’t...

 

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