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Stephen Romer

Stephen Romer was born in 1957 and was educated at Cambridge.  He has four published collections of poetry with the Oxford Poets imprint of Carcanet Press and is the editor of the Faber anthology Twentieth-Century French Poems. His acclaimed translation of Yves Bonnefoy's The Arriere-pays was published last year (Seagull Press, 2012), and his French Decadent Tales, new translations of fin-de-siècle stories, is due from Oxford World Classics in Spring 2013. He regularly writes on French literature and modern poetry for the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.



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A Black Hat, Silence and Bombshells : Michael Hofmann at Cambridge & After

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January 2013

Stephen Romer

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January 2013

The black hat and the black coat I was familiar with, before I knew their owner. It was Cambridge, the beginning of the Michaelmas...

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May 2013

Cabbage Butterflies

Ryū Murakami

TR. Ralph McCarthy

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May 2013

The guy looked disappointed when he saw me. My one sales point is that I’m young, but my eyelids...

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April 2012

They Told the Story from the Lighthouse

Chimene Suleyman

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April 2012

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

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March 2014

The Nothing on Which the Fire Depends

Micheline Aharonian Marcom

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March 2014

Friday 9 November 2009   The coffee is lukewarm, but she doesn’t mind to drink it this way. She...

 

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