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Samanta Schweblin
Samanta Schweblin was born in Buenos Aires in 1978. In 2001, she was awarded first prize by both the National Fund for the Arts and the Haroldo Conti National Competition for her debut, El Núcleo del Disturbio (where 'To Kill a Dog' appears). In 2008, she won the Casa de las Américas prize for her second collection of stories, Pájaros en la boca. Two years later, she was listed among the Best of Young Spanish Writers by Granta Magazine. Her work has been translated into numerous languages and appeared in more than twenty countries. She lives in Berlin.

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To Kill a Dog

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January 2014

SAMANTA SCHWEBLIN

TR. BRENDAN LANCTOT

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January 2014

The Mole says: name, and I answer. I waited for him at the indicated location and he picked me up in the Peugeot that...

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Issue No. 2

Three Poets and the World

Caleb Klaces

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Issue No. 2

In 1925, aged 20, the Hungarian poet Attila József was expelled from the University of Szeged for a radical...

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January 2015

Shishosetsu...

Minae Mizumura

TR. Juliet Winters Carpenter

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January 2015

This is an excerpt from the novel published in Japanese as Shishosetsu from left to right (私小説 from left...

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October 2013

A World of Sharp Edges: A Week Among Poets in the Western Cape

André Naffis-Sahely

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October 2013

In Antal Szerb’s The Incurable, the eccentric millionaire Peter Rarely steps into the dining car of a train steaming...

 

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